It happens to everyone. You get your hands on an Etch-A-Sketch for the first time, and armed with the knowledge of how it works, you’re sure you can draw things other than rectangles and staircases.

Unless you’re some incredibly gifted individual with more dexterity than a fighter jet pilot, making anything on a Etch-a-Sketch is hard. So [Evan] decided to motorize it, and cheat a little bit.

The application from a local artist named David Roberts proposed displaying artists’ illustrations – but on Etch A Sketch toys. Johnson, Clark County’s library gallery services director ...