Aisle 17No. 291 of 460
Splashery
Fountain Pen
349,776 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Everyday Things · Built from a recipe
Fountain Pen
A fountain pen carries its own ink inside.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to uncap the pen and write a swirl in wet blue ink.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 291 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 17, Everyday Things
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 349,776
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncap and write | Tap | ||
| Write | Button |
About it
A fountain pen carries its own ink inside. The ink runs from the barrel through a thin channel called the feed to a split metal nib, and the slit draws it down to the paper by capillary action, the same pull that lets a paper towel soak up water.
This one is made from a detailed 3D model of a real green pen. Tap it and the cap slides off and clicks onto the back end, the nib writes a looping swirl that shines while it is wet and dries darker, and the cap goes back on. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull the cap off the nib yourself and push it onto the back end, where it clicks on turned around, the way people post a cap while they write.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 88,630 at Low, and up to 351,429 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Fountain pen in translucent green (maker's marks painted out, cap moved) | chemicalX | CC BY 4.0 |
