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Friday, March 22, 2013

Buying Or Even Making Cheap Stylus Pens

By Christi Larsen


Western culture is in love with their electronic gadgets, but finding good cheap stylus pens to make them easier to use is not always simple. Such a tool can be an expensive item that is very easily misplaced due to the small size. Anyone with teenagers who often have such items confiscated by teachers, or dropped, or loaned out, knows how expensive this can get.

Anyone can find them online for sale at various prices, from the very expensive to basic market value. The cheaper they can be found, the easier it is on a household living under a budget. One thing few people realize is that there are instructions all over the Internet which can teach people how to make their own.

The fact is one can take a cheap pen, a little bit of wire, and some conductive foam and make their own. The conductive foam is what microchips and other small electronic components are embedded in. This foam can be found in old computers, cell phones, electronic recorders, and any other electronic devices which have been discarded into a junk drawer.

To create a more attractive tool for their gadget, one could use a fancier metal pen. Having metal allows the entire length of it to become the conductor, thus one will not need the small-gauge wire. This is a great project for a science class, not to mention being a useful skill for anyone obsessed with their expensive electronic gadgets.

The term which is now used came from the Latin Stilus, and it was adopted as a means to differentiate this tool from a regular ink pen. The original stilus was a tool made of stone, bone, or metal which was used to imprint letters and numbers onto clay tablets. These clay tablets have been excavated and discovered that they had a complex system of numbers for merchants and even a census bureau.

Not every tool is made the same however. One need only ask an artists about their pens and how important a fine point is to a wide point. With gadgets, artists do a great deal of sketching on this medium, and they generally prefer a long bamboo style which grants them a very light touch, necessary for making detailed sketches.

Every person has seen the worst of these tools at their local grocery store or the pharmacy counter. They are used for credit card transactions, and it is the most clumsy way to sign a name than anyone could imagine. It is truly a mystery how the computer identifies the signature as belonging to the signer considering that it never looks the same as a signature on paper.

The ones found at the grocery must be the worst of the cheap stylus pens, although there is certainly a range in the marketplace. For anyone who is looking for a good fine point, do some research and find out what the artists are using. For those with an eye toward creating one from scratch, make a video and share it with the world.




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