Junk Creation

28 Ways Use an Old (or New) Pen or Pencil

by Joshua Johnson on January 29th, 2008

I decided that I’d try to list as many ideas for making things from an old pen or pencil as I could–of course I won’t get even close to ALL of the ideas, but why not give it a try?  (I don’t know that I will ever use the list personally, since I can’t seem to find a way to keep track of any of them long enough to call them “old.”)

Here goes!

1. The Pen Safe:  I suppose I can start off with one of my own posts that is based on someone else’s…I link to a site that shows how to make a pen into a “safe” to store money.  (Again, not for me, since I loose pens…)
2. Exhaust Pipe: for a model car that is…
3. Pen Launcher: PLEASE DON’T HURT ANYONE!!!!
4. Solder Dispenser: Now THIS is a great idea–no more imprecise “sausage” finger mess-ups!
5. Soldering Iron Pen: Talk about a reversal from #4!  (It does use an old pen.)
6. Pencil Bow (with Arrow?): I think we should follow the same caution as with #3.
7. Mini Air Gun: What’s with all the ideas for projectiles?  I suppose certain things must be learned at school…
8. Dell laptop power adaptor:  I’m not sure I get how this one is made, but is is using an old pen!
9. DIY stylus pen:  I’ve done something like this before and it is handy.
10. Infrared Pen: Not sure who would use this…
11. Automatic Irrigation System: This uses all sorts of “junk.”
12. 360 Degree Video Adapter: This is very interesting.  Their test video is also at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqmoaLzbrk
13. Mini Pen: Yes, it IS what you are thinking–but it does take an old pen.
14. 15 ways to reuse old pens: DIY Life has apparently beaten me to the list idea, check out their ideas, too!

I KNOW that there are many, many other ideas, please comment them below and perhaps I will update the list with another post later.  For now, you will at least be cool because you showed how non-comprehensive (again, this should be a word if it isn’t) my little list is.

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