Accessories mod your stylus?

Hi there, my first post on this forum.
The question is, has anyone remodeled the edge stylus to fit large hands, like mine.
If not then here's what I did.
First forget about using the stylus holder, find a wide barrel (mine is a "MonAmi 4 CLASSIC COLORS" exactly as labeled) screwed together multicolored pen.
Remove the inks and check that the wide end of the stylus fits completely inside the barrel.
Next check the internal length available, you need it to push the tip of the stylus past the end of the pen, mine protrudes about 1cm. Any further and it stops being a pen(my first attempt).
Now you drill out the pen tip. Choose a drill bit that matches the thickness of the stylus where it leaves the barrel of the pen. My drill out is not neat but it works very well. By the way I didn't use a drill just my hands.
I then pushed the stylus into the barrel and screwed it carefully together making shure not to damage the stylus. Voila! a thick bodied normal length pen shaped stylus.
I fully admit I was lucky having the "MonAmi" multicoloured pen at hand but there must be other worthy candidates out there.
So I hope this helps someone else as it has me.
SeeYa,
ArrissGC

That's a neat solution, and very personalized

For the rest of us, a Wacom penabled pen is probably easier to get hold of: http://www.entourageedge.com/forums/...-with-the-eDGe

Neat trick! I spent a few hours last weekend crafting an ipad stylus from foam, salt water, grocery produce bags and the metal spring and barrel from a metal pen (an improvement over version 1, which was a damp Q-tip!). So last week I would have stopped when you wrote "drill" but this week, I was all "Oooh.. neat!"

I have the fancy motion computing pen and if you look closely at the (non-writing) end you'll see there's a hole that you can thread a string through, presumably to wrangle it to your device. I've been contemplating all week exactly what to string through it, since I found I wanted to keep better tabs on it a few times. But, I don't want anything that will get in the way or get caught in anything. I've been contemplating ribon for fun and fashion, or one of those small loops for adding keys to a keychain. Maybe a way to attach a charm (that won't hit or scratch anything). I think that's the extent of "modding" I have in mind for this pen!

But with respect to the original pen - will any solution that essentially holds the pen for you work, or do materials matter? If you got a "pencil extender" and simply inserted the stylus, would that work? IF the pencil extender is too wide (expecting something the thickness of regular pencil), could the edge stylus be wrapped in something along the top (non-writing) side to make it wider? Does it matter what that material is? Tape? String? Fabric? Foam?

Similarly, if you somehow just lobbed off the very tip of the stylus and could insert it into something that had the body of a mechanical pencil (or a drafter's lead holder), using a drill if the original hole weren't big enough, would that work? With the iPad pen, I had to worry about conductivity. Would it be the case here?

The replacement stylus I bought (from Wacom and Motion Computing) both came with extra tip replacements. I bet you could use one of those tips in a hand made stylus of some kind. I think it is the tip that makes it work.

Good call about the extra tips. They should work no problem in a lead holder, I would think. The lead holders I've seen have metal claws that stick out through the tip to grab whatever lead you're inserting, so perhaps they're more forgiving about size than a mechanical pencil that requires a particular size of lead.

When I get one for version 3 of the iPad stylus I want to make, I'll make sure to grab an extra one and use one of my extra stylus tips from this pen here.

I don't think the Wacom tips are anything other than plastic.....it is the mechanism inside the pen body that makes the pen work. In other words taking just the tip won't do anything for the Eink side. It would still work for the LCD side though.
Jon

PS. Checked Wikipedia.....they have some kind of capacitor inside the pen that makes it work in proximity to the screen.

Oh well, thanks for that info.

Hmm.. so then you would need something that simply holds the entire pen. I wonder if the non-round end (so you can grip to slide in and out) would give a pencil extender a problem.

Originally Posted by sarah11918

Hmm.. so then you would need something that simply holds the entire pen. I wonder if the non-round end (so you can grip to slide in and out) would give a pencil extender a problem.

I had making a clay like, molded stylus in mind, maybe I'll try over an extra little edge stylus.

^ When you wrote molded, I just thought of the very top of a swiffer - the handle that screws off with a rubberized grip. That's probably too big, but I wonder if there's any other item that comes with a comfort grip that could have the stylus shoved into it.

Yes, it is the mechanism inside that makes it work. I accidentally cracked the stylus from another eReader and when I bought a replacement I went to town on the broken one. The inside of the Wacom stylus is unbelievably complicated -- Stacked layers of washers, metal disks, o-rings, a coil of metal finer than hair. It's not an inert stick in spite of its external appearance. That's why they don't cost 49 cents to replace.

In an attempt to mod my stylus, I broke one, spilling the filament (Is it some type of graphite?), coil (Copper?) and other bits. Can't wait to try it again. I have two beautiful hard-carved wooden pens for holding ink cartridges that should just fit the entire stylus inside if I can manage to scrape off the "clip" at the larger end.

Here is my idea and I have a question also. I am waiting for my Motion L-Series pen to be delivered. But I also have an idea. I bought a cheap capactive pen for iTouch type units and it works extremely well on the LCD side. I can promise you that I would have NEVER scratched my LCD screen by accident if using this. So what did I do next? I took the pen apart, of course. Now I have the paintbrush/makeup looking end attached to a small, thin plastic piece that extends 1 1/4". Now, this is my idea and I need to see if I will end up destroying my white stylus in the process. My plan is to_remove_ the end 'cap' of the white stylus and then drill a very thin hole 1"1/4 deep into the white stylus. Finally attaching the new 'end cap' with a LCD appropriate stylus end. Seems perfect. It would fit in the stylus hole/area of my eDGe since most of it would still be there. But now I have a double ended, dual purpose and SAFE stylus that is guaranteed to not scratch your screen and make working on the LCD screen MUCH more enjoyable.

Question: Starting measuring from the END of the stylus, how much space do I have before I drill into critical components? I can cut off much of the length of the new end because it needs to be long enough to be stable but I have construction adhesive that will work with plastics and surly do the trick.

This is the cheap pen I bought and took apart. I do not know how to add my photos of the disassembled pen... But they have good pictures with the product. Hopefully it will make sense.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_os_product

Thanks.. and I look forward to any comments. Things like .. dude, you are crazy is ok too. Sometimes I do stuff I shouldn't.


** update, After looking at the end cap of original white stylus, I believe I do not have to remove it at all. I can drill using a longer thinner bit and finish with a larger bit for the top area as it widens out some. Finally, a slight countersink will work great. I can not wait to get home and try this tonight!!!! Now I have to work today and tonight... so long until I get home!! It is driving me nuts. I will write back and report how the little project ended up.

*** up-update: I ended up drilling a hole into the end of the white styles. Then I took the brush-part from the capactive iTouch stylus and inserted it into the newly created whole. I used no glue or adhesive. It holds very tight and will not come out without deliberate intentions... besides, using some kind of glue scares me since I am using this on the screen. My luck would have a wet part smear my screen! lol

Summery: Now my stylus is double-sided. One side for the LCD screen and the other for the ereader screen. It is much, much nicer using the LCD screen now. And everything fits nicely into its stylus home on the eDGe. It kind of looks like a small ereaser/brush on the end of the stylus. I am sure the end can be other materials like a Q-tip (that I read has been done here), or a makeup applier thing, or trimmed paintbrush.