Friday, March 23, 2012

Stylus for your smart phone anyone?

I've been playing around with a game recently called 'Draw Something.' It's basically an app version of the classic "Pictionary" where users draw pictures based on a preset word and try to get another player to guess what it is they are drawing.

Now, the unfortunate thing about this game, is you have to use your finger... Which makes the more difficult words even harder to portray because you do not have that fine precision that you would have with a pen. Fortunately, I stumbled upon a tutorial on Youtube on how to make a stylus for the newer smart phones (aka: iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, etc). Your regular pressure based styluses won't work here as they are non-conducive.

Fortunately it's quite simple to make a conducive pen-stylus. And the only materials you need are as follows:

Foil Template (Located HERE)
Foil bag (most kinds of chips use them)
Pen
Scissors
Razor/box cutter (for small precision cuts in the foil)
Tape

The actual tutorial is located HERE

He's a little difficult to understand because of his accent, but the design works well. Also, I plan to make my own video tutorial (hopefully in the near future) to help make it a bit easier for those of you having a tough time understanding everything he says/does.

Good luck and have fun!

3 comments:

Ashley said...

Do you use the stylus when you play? Because I always feel like you're playing drunk?! LOL I play on my Samsung Galaxy so I don't know if the stylus isn't very precise but you don't notice it on your smaller screen and I do on my bigger one? Or you really are playing drunk... hehe.

THeDmoNSIOLd said...

Lol, I play with it off and on. I get lazy and just use my finger to draw lol

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