just about every engineer needs to take a drawing class, however until now we surprisingly haven’t seen electronics thrown into rulers, t-squares, as well as lead holders. [Anirudh] decided to modification that with Glassified. It’s a transparent screen embedded in a ruler that is able to capture hand drawn lines. These physical lines can be interacted with or measured, turning a ruler into a bridge between a paper drawing as well as a digital environment.

For the display, [Anirudh] mounted a transparent TOLED screen with a digitizer input into a ruler. The digitizer captures the pen strokes underneath the ruler, as well as is able to interact with the physical lines, either to determine the length as well as angle of lines, or just to bounce a digital sphere inside a hand-drawn polygon.

There’s no word on exactly how this screen is being driven, or what kind of code is running on it. [Anirudh] said he will have some schematics as well as code offered up on his website soon (it’s a 404 right now).