iPad/iPhone Stylus

This is the world's easiest stylus to make for your iPad/iPhone (or any other capacitive/non pressure touchscreen). With a small section of capacitive foam and .25" aluminum rod, you can make a stylus with nothing more than super-glue and a .25" hole punch. On top of that, they match the minimalist design style of Apple products.

After I cut my aluminum section, I stuck it in a drill and held some fine sandpaper up to it to smooth the end and give it a nice brushed texture. Then you flip it and do the other end. I finished it off by twisting it by hand through some steel wool. Gives it a really nice feel! - j

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• iPad
• stylus
• iPod
• iPhone
• capacitive
• pen

[grafix2c]

Where do you get the aluminum rod?

[ivansdaddy]

@grafix2c

Lowes/Home Depot, etc.

McMaster has a 12" length for under $4.

[Kairuka]

@diego10k You can attach a piece of foam to the steel pen temporarily to test it. If it works, it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

[Kairuka]

@vINathIx No spelling of "aluminum"/"aluminium" contains an O. The difference between the names aluminum and aluminium and the reasoning behind it is easily researched on the web. In short, both are accepted and there is a good reason why. It's actually pretty interesting, so Google it. :)

[vINathIx]

mmm kay! - and theres no "O" in aluminium to all you americans!

[NESherv]

"We don't want to carry around a mouse, right? So what do we do? Oh, a stylus! Right? We're gonna use a stylus! ...No. No. Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, and put 'em away, you lose 'em, yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus. We're gonna use the best pointing device in the world. We're gonna use a pointing device that we're all born with. We're born with ten of them. We're gonna use our fingers."

-Steve Jobs, at the iPhone keynote presentation in 2007

[diego10k]

great tutorial

does it have to be an aluminum rod? or can it be those steel pens? I have tons of them lying around

[samuraixyz]

I think Radio Shack just got really cheap; they don't have any of the form on their chips anymore.

[12rjm]

*foil not foiled.......lol

[12rjm]

Hey that doesn't look too bad given it's homemade! Looks way better than others made from old pens, foiled and wire! lol