The Nintendo Switch 2 has a touchscreen, but it doesn't come with a stylus. That's a problem if you're looking to customize stuff in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. The game lets you draw on basically anything. You can make food, signs, different faces, and clothes—and if you're going to make a big titty beauty in Tomodachi Life, it's very annoying to use your fingers to draw precise cleavage around your pink bikini top, or to make anything else. That's why Tomodachi Life players are getting crafty and making DIY styluses out of Q-tips and foil.
Here's what I've learned from TikTok:
- Grab a Q-tip.
- Grab some foil.
- Wrap the Q-tip in the foil, leaving the cotton tip out.
- Lick the Q-tip head to create a tiny bit of moisture. (This is key, or else it won't register. Something about conductive surfaces.)
If you are fancy, you can pop that Q-tip into an emptied out pen, though you still have to wrap it in foil, though. You're going to need to keep licking the top of the Q-tip (or run it very quickly under water, but be careful not to soak it) for a hot second to keep it a little moist.
@felinequeenie Crafting over here ladies 👙 Qtip + foil + drop of water🫶 #tomodachilife #tomodachigame #diy #styluspen #digitalart
♬ MII MAKER (TOMODACHI LIFE) - Kunai
There are other methods, too. You can use a small piece of a chip bag taped to the eraser of a pencil. According to Tomodachi Life player OhhMyKawaii, your hand has to be touching the chip bag or else it won't work, again because of the conductive surface. The Q-tip is essentially a soft bit that theoretically won't scratch your screen, and the foil or chip bag is used to conduct electricity. The moisture helps create connection between the cotton and the foil, according to a DIY stylus maker.
You might be thinking, why can't I use the stylus from my Nintendo 3DS? I don't know! Reddit user CreekTerrarium explains that the Nintendo 3DS has a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive one. A resistive touchscreen works when it detects pressure between the screen and the plastic stylus. The Nintendo Switch 2 has a capacitive touchscreen, like a lot of new technology. It requires an electric charge to detect a stylus. Styluses that work for capacitive touchscreens must be rubber or some other material (or your finger) to create electricity. CreekTerrarium warned away from Apple Pencils.
You could always buy a stylus, too, but who doesn't love a little craft?
