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This Etch-A-Sketch Camera Now Draws Movies with a RPi Camera #piday #raspberrypi
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This Etch-A-Sketch Camera Now Draws Movies with a RPi Camera #piday #raspberrypi

Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!·Ben·3 days ago
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Scope-creep ran away with this project. What started as an Etch-A-Sketch with an undo button spiraled into the Teka-sketch, an Etch-a-Sketch that renders actual video! From Tekavou , they say this is the final form but something tells me they’ll be back. Thanks for sharing! The project uses: – Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W camera – Raspberry Pi Camera V3 – Inkplate 6 ePaper display – Custom software pipeline that converts footage into continuous line drawings The latest upgrade adds frame-to-frame optimizations and colored output. Yes you read that right. In today’s episode, we take one of the most iconic toys ever made and push it way past what it was ever meant to do. We turn drawings into animation, animation into video, and along the way accidentally rediscover a few old filmmaking tricks and create something I have genuinely never seen before. This project ended up getting a lot stranger than I expected but it was completely worth it.…

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