When creating the stylus, a conductive silicone composition is used, which can be used with iPods\iPhones\iPads and other smartphones with capacitive screens. Because the contact portion of the stylus is transparent, you can see the lines you're drawing and draw them more accurately. Read on to find out what to make a stylus for a smartphone from.
The instructions tell you how to make a stylus for your tablet with your own hands:
- Upgrade any pencil or pen and turn it into a standard type stylus for pressing buttons, drawing sketches, while you can use the pen/pencil for its usual purpose - for writing on paper
- Use conductive rubber to create a round tip stylus for drawing and pressing buttons
- Use conductive rubber to create a flat brush for painting and use in graphics programs. This brush will fit in your wallet (this brush is shown in the title picture)
Making a stylus from a cotton swab
They haven’t come up with any number of ways to create a stylus, although it would seem that buying one is as easy as shelling pears. And here is one of them - a drawing tool made from a cotton swab. All you and we need is one cotton swab and some foil. Well, let's start creating this masterpiece:
- Take a cotton swab and wrap it in foil to the tip.
- Now let's wet the cotton part a little. The water will act as an electrical conductor.
Cotton swab stylus
Just two steps and the stylus is ready. For it to work continuously, the cotton wool must remain moist. Because of this, you have to constantly wet it, which is very inconvenient. It is much easier to purchase a ready-made stylus and use it comfortably.
Several examples of effective use of the stylus.
Making notes. If the very first Note allowed you to use the stylus only for drawing in a simple application, then in the third generation of gadgets in this series everything has changed dramatically. Now a mobile device has become a luxurious alternative to a regular notepad, in which you can make small notes by hand or write down entire notes.
After all, your smartphone is always at your fingertips, and when combined with an electronic pen, it completely replaces a more bulky and inconvenient paper diary. But if earlier it was inconvenient to enter text into mobile gadgets (for example, this one took a lot of time), now it is very easy to write it using the S Pen, which has become larger and resembles a regular ballpoint pen.
Another important advantage of the Galaxy Note (starting from the third generation) over a paper notepad is its enormous capabilities. You not only create notes of any size, but you are also able to choose the appropriate layout yourself, insert images into the recorded text, and then immediately share the notes with friends, classmates or colleagues
Notes, planning, sketches. Are you planning to start renovations or are you planning to buy a new home? The gadget from Samsung will allow you to download the apartment layout directly from the developer’s website and at any time add notes to it about what you would like to change. In the same way, you can take any drawing or graph, save it to the device’s memory in high resolution, and then simply edit and add handwritten notes at any time.
Agree that working with sketches in Note 3 and later versions is much more convenient than trying to save such things in a notepad or on a napkin. For example, you can undo your last actions at any time and carefully redo what you have written. And on paper you will have to either scribble or completely redraw everything from scratch.
Handwritten notes and additions to screenshots. Much the same as in the Galaxy Note 3 and other later models, the stylus allows you to work with any screenshot.
Simply save a graph or picture from the application to your smartphone’s memory, immediately add handwritten notes to it, and then either forward it to another mobile device or upload it to a website or social network.
After this, you will receive a fragment, which can then be edited and changed as desired. And having completed all the necessary operations with it, the user only needs a couple of seconds to send the resulting file to any person. Or post a picture of the screen and your notes on Twitter.
Editing images. The days when editing and post-processing photos taken with a smartphone required downloading them to a computer are a thing of the past. Now you just need to install suitable software on your mobile device, for example, Photoshop Touch. And the stylus will become indispensable when editing, since with its help it is much easier to perform any operation - select or remove a small object, sign an autograph or sign a photo by hand.
You can edit any other images in the same way. Moreover, if it is simply inconvenient to edit small details with your finger, then with an electronic pen this is done much easier than with a mouse on a computer.
These are just five ways to use the S Pen. But in reality there are many more of them. After all, the stylus allows you to turn your smartphone into a kind of analogue of a regular notepad, graphics tablet, and even a PC. So the electronic pen is not an ordinary marketing ploy, but a useful tool that makes life easier. The main thing is to learn how to use it. Why do you use the stylus (S Pen) in your work?
How to replace the stylus
Paper
Paper rolled into a tube and with the tip dipped in water can be used as a stylus.
Cotton swab with foil
An ear stick wrapped in foil can be used as a stylus.
Battery
To use a battery (finger or little finger), it is important to know the main secret - you need to touch it with the blunt side “-“, pressing it evenly against the screen.
Making a “handle” for a phone without foil
Don't like the foil method? Then skip them and start reading what follows. And again he will use material that is available to anyone. This time you need to use an aluminum can from Coca-Cola or beer to make your own stylus for your mobile phone.
Drink can
You may need to fork out a little and purchase any “canned” drink.
Cut off the top and bottom of the can
Using regular scissors, separate the top and bottom from it to make an even sheet.
So, what you need to do at home:
- Roll the resulting canvas into a tube so that you get a body as thick as a pencil; Canvas from a tin can
- Take a regular cotton swab and a plastic bag. Soak a cotton swab in water and wrap it with a piece of bag; Wrap a cotton swab in cellophane weasel
- Insert the resulting rod into a tube made from a tin can. It should not be very wide so that the tip of the cotton swab cannot go all the way through the hole in the tube; Insert the rod into the tube
- Open a graphics editor on your phone and try drawing with the created stylus. Stylus from a tin can
This rod has the main advantage over others - safety for screens. Other designs can be made based on it. For example, use copper wire with a small cross-section. The tip is repeated: we use a plastic flap and a wet sponge or cotton wool. You can take a simple pencil as a basis and tightly wrap its lower part with wire.
Stylus made of pencil and wire
Just in the place where you will come into contact with the stylus. Then lower one end of the wire (bottom) into the wet substance so that there is contact between the user’s hand and the rod. The device is ready.
HOW TO MAKE A STYLUS WITHOUT FOIL
Manufacturing process
A piece of sponge should be moistened and placed in the very center of a round polyethylene surface; Liquid should not flow from the sponge.
Then make a rod out of foil that will match the length of a ballpoint pen; it must be placed so that it is adjacent to the damp sponge.
Next, the round surface needs to be wrapped with tape; the entire structure must be completely wrapped with tape to the handle.
The rod can be pulled out so that it does not dangle; In addition to a pen, you can use any long object that is convenient to use and that will not damage the screen.
Now you need to take your mobile gadget and try out a new handmade stylus; The item doesn't look very attractive, but it works great.
Think about whether you need to make a stylus yourself?
Nowadays you can find a huge number of different styluses on sale: in a metal or plastic case, with beautiful patterns, drawings and engravings. Moreover, such a tool is relatively cheap - only 20-50 rubles for a good and high-quality option. To compare prices, let's turn to the well-known trading platform AliExpress.
Selling styluses on AliExpress
Let's go to the site and enter the request “Stylus for phone” in the search bar. We are faced with a huge number of offers from different sellers. The number of options available is truly amazing. After this, the desire to do something with your own hands disappears.
But if you don't want to wait for delivery, you can simply go to a local store that sells phones, cases and other accessories. Most likely, you will find many styluses on sale at normal prices. Of course, you can make a drawing tool with your own hands, but sometimes it will cost even more than the factory version. So keep this in mind.
Maybe it's easier to buy?
Before you start figuring out how to make your own stylus for drawing on a tablet, think about whether it would be better to buy one? If you think that this is a very expensive and inaccessible device, then we hasten to rejoice: it is not so. The simplest pen for a capacitive screen can be bought for an average of 40 rubles. There are even options on Aliexpress for 20 rubles - and this is cheaper than the materials for making a stylus yourself.
If you can't order a stylus online, go to your local electronics store, even if it's not the "whitest" store. Even in stalls in underground passages you can find a huge number of touch pens - in different colors and sizes, and at a relatively low price.
Of course, you may have a question: if styluses are so cheap, why do branded models like the Apple Pencil cost several thousand rubles? The fact is that all these advanced styluses - for Apple, Samsung and graphics tablets - can not only replace your finger when working with a touch screen. Typically, such models respond to the degree of pressure - for example, the pen of the HUAWEI MediaPad Pro tablet recognizes up to 4096 levels. Smart styluses can also be charged from the device and control applications via Bluetooth (for example, a camera or player).
And these styluses, which you can buy on Ali for 20 rubles or make yourself, will help you control your gadget only with touches and swipes. You can also draw with them, but they don't sense pressure.
How to make a stylus for a phone from metal or foil
So, to make your own stylus, we will need:
- a metal stick - this could be a broken antenna from an old radio, a metal casing from a pen, or even the tip of a screwdriver;
- loose fabric - for example, a nylon sock or a piece of handkerchief;
- threads and scissors.
The basis of the stylus, as you probably already understood, will be a metal object. You can test it in action right away - the smartphone screen will respond to the conductor’s touches. To prevent the metal from scratching the display or damaging the protective film, cut a piece of fabric and wrap it around the tip. For reliability, secure the fabric with threads, wrapping them around the body of the future stylus.
