Hacked Etch A Sketches create a connection between friends to communicate through the classic toy. When drawing on one toy, the same drawing is instantly sent to the corresponding drawing machine creating collaborative artwork.
In keeping with the original interactions of the Etch A Sketch, if you rub out a sketch, the other product will shake alerting your fellow artist clear their screen. They will repeat this action to confirm that the canvas has been cleared.
Connect A Sketch is an innovation by Andrew Little, a final-year Product Design student based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Mr Little, 21, of Livingston, West Lothian said: “We all love to leave personal messages for one another, be it productive or playful, Connect A Sketch was designed to take this interaction to a larger scale. The reason I chose to do this through an Etch A Sketch is because of my appreciation of the toy I grew up with.”
Connect A Sketch will be unveiled at the 2011 Dundee Degree Show and the prestigious London exhibition, New Designers.
More information about Andrew and his work can be found at: http://www.designalittle.co.uk.
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For more information about Connect A Sketch contact:
Andrew Little | E: a.little@dundee.ac.uk
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