touch response

Hi,
My desktop monitor could be turn on by touching the turn-on place of it. I want to embed Arduino in a pen, so that when one takes the pen and fingers sit at regular place on pen (no matter the style of person in keeping it), the lights on pen go on.

What could be the best element to realize it please? Any example project I could get as starting point?

you could cover the pen in metal like aluminum foil in different strips and your hand could connect the circuit which the Arduino could detect and light up the LED's

I want to embed Arduino in a pen

That is going to be a very chunky pen!

darlington pair transistors, attiny , led and few cells should work fine...

The pen is very practical to make by my cnc machine out of corian dupont stone.

Any link on similar project of using this darlington pair transistors please?

http://www.simple-electronics.com/2010/11/simple-touch-switch-using-transistor.html

and no need for a microcontroller too....

Thank you very much, exactly what I need!