Faced with that very dilemma, Sal Cangeloso decided to save himself a few bucks with a homemade solution, trimming the stock stylus and packing it with a bit of rubber into his pen's emptied ...

You can make a stylus by inserting a cotton swab in the tip of an empty pen and wrapping the pen in foil. Make sure the cotton is damp and then you can use the homemade stylus to control your tablet.

But because I was not willing to spend $10 to $30 on a piece of metal or wait for the product to ship, I opted for a DIY solution ... 2-minute Stylus." 1. Remove the ink from the pen.

But when you need acute accuracy for your next New Yorker cover, or if you just finished some nachos, a cheap, easy to build stylus might fit ... taking apart a pen and breaking out the super ...

Step 1: Take a sheet of aluminum foil and wrap it around the pen, so that the top region of the pen is covered entirely Step 2: In order to prevent the foil from coming out or letting loose ...

If you'd like some finer control when using a touch screen, especially on devices with a nice expansive one like the iPad, you can convert a pen to do a stylus' job for next to nothing.

he’s most likely talking about this (no offence Warner): That’s right it’s a DIY stylus for a capacitive touch screen, like the one on the iPad. When I think of a digital pen, I think of the ...

As we said the needs for a DIY stylus are very simple indeed. All you’ll require are an old pen, some tin foil, a cotton bud, scissors, sticky tape, and a small amount of water. Now take the ...