MOST PEOPLE HAVE PLAYED WITH AN ETCH-A-SKETCH at one time or another in their lives.  Personally, I get fed up with the things rather quickly and heave it across the room before I can even draw the snow caps on the mountain tops.

Other people can work the things smoothly, though, and sit there for long periods drawing a masterpiece while grinning all the while.

But the electronic geek fraternity does it even better.  For years now they have been hooking the dials up to computerized servo-motors that will do all kinds of etch-a-tricks.

One fellow, who undoubtedly has a hard time getting dates, has taken it to a new level.  He has connected his computer program up to a time-counter of some sort and has developed an automatic etch-a-sketch that keeps the time, faithfully updating it exactly every minute.

Click on the video to view this diabolic creation:

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