Don’t write off your weird ideas — turn them into reality. For years, woodworkers have used pen bodies as a canvas for showing off beautiful wood. But what’s the fun in that? [JPayneWoodworking] made a pen out of Ramen noodles just to see if he could.
The process is pretty straightforward, as he explains in the build video after the break. He hammered the uncooked noodle mass into pieces small enough to fit a pen blank mold, but not so small that they’re unrecognizable. Then he poured in pigmented epoxy in orange, silver, and black. [JPayneWoodworking] chose those colors for Halloween, but rather than looking freaky, we think it makes the pen look like a bowl of beef broth-y goodness from a fancy Ramen place.
After adding the flavor packet pigments, he put it in a pressure tank to remove all air pockets. Once it sets up, the process is the same as any other pen blank — take it for a spin on the lathe, polish it up, ream it out, and fit it with the parts from a pen kit. We’d like to see the look on the face of the next person to ask [JPayneWoodworking] for a pen.
Want to get into woodworking just to make weird stuff like this? We don’t blame you. But how does a hardware hacker such as yourself get started? [Dan Maloney]’s got you covered.
I came here expecting a 3D printing pen that extruded edible noodle sculptures, and left disappointed.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that.
My kids would have a blast with a noodle extruding pen.
me 2
Me 3. Not as big a let down as the coffee-bean filament not smelling like coffee…
me too :(
Consider me #6
Same here :-/ I guess the competition is on to create a pen that doodles with noodles as promised by this article’s title.
It does seem that there is a surprisingly large demand.
Me √4. Wtf. Alright somebody better start grinding up Ramen and building extruder or wet noodle lashing all around.
I’ll bet filling a syringe – or caulk gun – with noodle dough ought to accomplish that.
And yes, I’d clicked hoping for a mini pasta machine pen too.
Where is the hack in this project?
Where is the insight in “this isnt a hack!!” posts?
Im not sure, that wasn’t my comment.
Ahh, cranky AND a pedant. nice
Two out of three Hackaday virtues.
10 out of 11 Hackaday virtues.
Using noodles in a nonstandard creative way isn’t a hack?
It’s a pen. He made…a pen. He didn’t make the functional part of the pen, or make the pen do something it was not designed or intended for–he made the body. Out of noodles. Cheap ramen noodles. If I make a pen body out of say, dog turds, could I get on the front page of HaD? Is that all it takes now? Here, I’ll even give you the click bait title: Dog Poop powered Pen is a Real stINKer.
dang i was expecting a pen that actually wrote with poop
I came here expecting wet noodle in resin stupidity like the clickbait guitar a while back and left reassured that common sense prevailed with the use of dry noodles.
It looks like guts inside the pen.
Or maggots
Not involving superglue means this is a missed opportunity to reference that ramen based repairs meme that had been going around.
When you doodle with your noodle baby Jesus cries.
It’s a nice and novel idea to make this ramen pen, the video shows how he did it and i am sure it will inspire others to make stuff and enjoy it. That’s what hackaday is about for me, don’t understand the negative comments.