Searching for a word

I am out of coffee. For two days now, trying to kickstart my brain with green tea. It's not working.
 
I could walk to the corner 7-11, but I get up at an hour when you can get harassed by cops for merely walking down the street. Plus it's pitch-dark and frickin' cold out. OK, laziness is a factor as well.
 
One symptom of caffeine deficiency is when you search for a word and are unable to conjure it. So I am reaching out to those who've been adequately caffeinated today, or at least have been up for a few more hours than me.
 
I am trying to remember the name of the device that lets you trace a pattern while it redraws the same pattern larger or smaller. It's called a something-graph. I know it ends in "graph". Any graphic artists in the crowd who remember what this device is called?

It's was called Sketch-a-Graph in the UK Dave, I actually found one in a drawer a couple of weeks ago.
 
When I had a sign making company we had a machine called a Pantograph which had an engraving tool on the end, similar principle.

Or was it 'Spirograph'?
 

Yeah Spirograph is what immediately came to mind for me. I can still remember playing with mine as a kid in great detail. That clicky motion as you rotated the discs....
 
Incidentally, green tea doesn't do it for me either caffeine-wise. But Matcha tea does. Way more caffeine in it and while it doesn't have quite the same kick as coffee, it's more sustained. 

I think you need to pick up a can of coffee. :-)

bitflipper
I am trying to remember the name of the device that lets you trace a pattern while it redraws the same pattern larger or smaller. It's called a something-graph. I know it ends in "graph". Any graphic artists in the crowd who remember what this device is called?

"Obsolete"?

I thought of Spirograph as well.
 
As for any cops that early in the morning, just tell them that you're now one of the 'Cakewalk Mods', and they'll be sure to back off and leave you alone there Bit.
 
You might even get an, "Oh - so sorry to trouble you good Sir. Can we give you a lift to the store and back?
Have a great day - and our most sincere apologies once again for any trouble or inconvenience we may have caused you!"
 
You know - like in the Godfather during the play, when the guy beside Deniro says, "Hey you bum - sit down!"
 
Then his face goes cold with a blank ghostly stare when 'The Black Hand' turns around to see who said it.
 
So wheel your well-earned prestige out and throw your weight around a little there Bit.
Show those cops just who's who!

Just wear your Host uniform and the cops will leave you alone.
 
 
I wear mine to bed and get loads of sleep...

Karyn
I wear mine to bed and get loads of sleep...

Every comment that came to mind after that one violates something in the TOS.

bitflipper
"...throw your weight around a little..."
 
Is that a reference to my comment about buying "relaxed-fit" pants and a carton of cottage cheese?

Haha!
You pick Bit - your choice!
 
Either one - or maybe even both!