Our mbed twitter controlled Etch-a-sketch is live!

Posted 27 Apr 2010, by Simon Ford

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Check out our mbed-powered, LOGO interpreting, twitter-controlled etch-a-sketch at http://mbed.org/etch-a-sketch/ :)

We got the motors working thursday, built the rest of the web, LOGO engine and hardware friday, destroyed our first etch-a-sketch, addid in some bounds checking saturday, and now its up!

And it seems to actually be working :)

Have a go, and pass it on!

Comments

Hugo Vincent

# 27 Apr 2010

What? No bitmap-to-vector algorithm ;-) Check out Hektor (http://www.hektor.ch/) for inspiration.

Nice work and congrats on the EDN award!

Hare Patnaik

# 03 May 2010

Simon,

It was nice seeing u at the embedded conference,san jose,CA. As i mentioned to u EMBED has changed life for few engineers in Detroit,michigan. I bought and used the embed right out of the box in few minutes and completed a data logger application using GPS engine, 2X16 Lcd panel, SD card interface in few hours which took me months to years of development. I showed the application around GM tech center( GM R&D center), warren ,michigan and everybody loved the idea of developing small aplications for user interface applications in a vehicle in matter of hours. I lked the prototype daughter board u showed me which can save evn more time. As i mentioned I have lots of application in India for mbed board. First time in my life , i have seen a tool which runs out of box literally. Thanks for the help on the Sd card interface, i will try as soon i get in town.

Great Job and congratulations on u r award

Hare patnaik

HP Microsystems Inc, Rochester hills,Michigan.