If you guessed Etch A Sketch from the previous teaser post, you are correct.
The Etch A Sketch kept me occupied for hours at a time. This thing intrigued me, I wondered how it worked. I was a kid on a mission to see what was behind that silver screen. I started on the top of the screen and drew a straight line from one side to the other, then used the dial to move down the screen a lines width, then went all the way back the other way. I kept this up till I had completely removed all of the silver from the screen and all that was left was clear glass. COOL! So that’s what the inside of the Etch A Sketch looks like! Come on, admit it, you did the same thing! : D
All righty! Now that I’ve solved that mystery, now what do I do with this thing?
I tried drawing on the Etch A Sketch, but I found it difficult to make a round circle or even smooth curves with it. I just couldn’t create any worthy works of art, by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike some of the incredible drawings that I found on the web, like this rendition of the cast of the Andy Griffith Show.
My drawings looked slightly more simplistic (just slightly), like the example below:
My original Etch A Sketch is long gone, but someone gave me a current version, although much smaller, and in keychain form. Old memories never die.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
