Phenomenal. For what it’s worth, I think this would be a killer app for my phone. My kids would easily spend hours drawing and animating their creations.
that little toy I had as a kid did more to shape my career as than even hypercard.
FTA (and relevant):
> What truly made this the best toy ever made was the amount of patience and perseverance a kid needed to create these animations, just like real animators. This is also why it would later fall from popularity.
Hah! Cool to meet another kid who grew up with that. I wish there were more actual devices like that now, with their own weird UIs and knobs and buttons, instead of everything being an app mixed in on a tablet with endless other apps. When you think about it, what a far-out thing for a company that made Etch-A-Sketches to engineer and sell...
Yeah, the limited memory was a shortcoming. Still, in a way, that made it more in line with the notional paradigm of the Etch-A-Sketch... doing the drawing is the fun, but eventually you have to erase it and start over.
I’d pay money for this.