The whole joy of flipping over your etch-a-sketch and shaking it madly to erase a drawing seems to be going away. With this highly sophisticate toy that’s made its way into our midst, the beloved sketching tool doesn’t get a chance to be a toddlers first digital art device. It’s called the PropEtcher. With the help of a Parallax Propeller chip, this device can draw with the help of a computer that controls it. So it’s basically the same thing, only this time, it has a computer controlling it.

For a few more sophisticated minds, our source quotes, ‘As it happens, there is some appreciable mechanical slop, also known as backlash, in the system. At first I thought the backlash was in the tubing between the stepper motors and the Etch-a-Sketch, but in fact it's mostly in the Etch-a-Sketch mechanism itself’.

[Techeblog]