Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears

3D Printing & Imaging Technology
Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears

Thingiverse user BenJackson designed a bracket and two gears that allow you to add numeric ontrol capability to your Etch-A-Sketch.

What can I say? I’ve never been able to draw anything with an Etch-a-Sketch. I won this one in a Christmas gift exchange some years ago and hung onto it with the idea that someday I’d CNC it.

The stepper motors are 7.5 degree Airpax steppers I got surplus many years ago. It turns out those mounting ears are actually NEMA 23 compatible so this should work unmodified with “square” steppers as well.

4 thoughts on “Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears

  1. Amedeo Bianchi says:

    Awesome!

  2. Anonymous says:

    Have you seen this one, programmed to draw from photos?

    http://letsmakerobots.com/node/3949

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