DIY Etch A Sketch Creates Tiny Zen Gardens Instead of Crappy Drawings

Using the Etch A resume for drawing or doodling is exactly what the plaything was designed for — and it ’s also what it ’s completely atrocious at . You might as well be tying your hands behind your back when you trade a pencil for a pair of knobs , butJonathan Odom has found a way to release the Etch A Sketch ’s weaknessesinto strengths with a tiny zen garden you groom with a like distich of handwriting - cranked dials .

His bridge player - made XYZen Garden works pretty much exactly like an Etch A Sketch does , except all of the wooden pulleys and face crossbeams needed to make it work are entrust endanger , which just tot to its appeal . And instead of a crisp point scraping silver pulverization off a plastic screen , the XYZen Garden has a minor prick that carve lines in a shallow layer of moxie .

It ’s far more complicated than using a tiny rake , but as a stress allayer it ’s a much good agency to cark your mind . And Odom haseven posted the instructions on how to build your own over on Instructables , if you ’ve got accession to enough carpentry tools . [ Instructablesviadesignboom ]