Still looking for that diabolical prank for April Fools’ Day? Maybe these cool tricks will inspire you.
Matthew Weathers pranked his class by video taping his own shadow and having it misbehave during the lecture.
Yaakov wrote a Perl script that changed the “READY” message on his printer to “INSERT COIN“.
Jason Poel Smith also wrote this clever prank for Make: Projects — a recording module that activates when the box is shaken.
Altering digital signs is good for laughs as well as inspiring a healthy fear of the undead.
PC Load Letter! Instructables user laxap made an old printer into a shredder. Time to prank the office intern!
Make: Projects author Jason Poel Smith built this 555-controlled noisemaker that is concealed near a friend or co-worker and beeps occasionally to drive him or her mental.
Instructable user photos built this prank — a noisemaker that activates when picked up and can’t be shut off without smashing it!
Glue some packing peanuts to sheets of cardboard to convince the vacationing coworker that his or her office has been filled with peanuts. It would be an even better prank to actually do it.
Instructable user hikinotimasha shows how to create fake error messages that will freak out your friend!
Warren created this Chia keyboard to prank a co-worker…
If you want to learn more, reference the following links:
- Misbehaving Shadow
- HP Printer Hack
- Chia Keyboard
- Critical Error
- Miniature Beeping Circuit Prank
- Shake-Activated Present Prank
- Magnetic Sonic Cube Landmine
- Hack a Constuction Sign
- Convert a Printer Into a Shredder
- Packing Peanut Office Prank
Good luck, and be sure to send in your pranks from 4/1 and we’ll post the best of them!
8 thoughts on “April Fools’ Prank Inspirations”
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I’m not a very technical person – I’ve got just enough knowledge to screw things up. However, I did pull one tech-based prank that turned out pretty well.
A few years a jokester at work, after washing his hands, decided to dry them on my face. Well they say revenge is best served cold, and thankfully my revenge prank took awhile to put together.
I had the transmitter and receiver workings from a simple radio-controlled airplane, so I used it as the basis of my prank. I got a cardboard box and taped a small makeshift water tank inside, with a small pump supplying a hose running up to the top of the box. The switch for the pump was activated by the motion of the receiver mechanism’s bell crank. The little hose ran up to the edge of one of the box flaps, but it wasn’t readily visible. I filled the water tank and taped everything shut, wrote his name and work address on the box and put it on his desk, making sure the hose was facing where I thought he’d be when he examined the box.
Well, it worked. As soon as he looked at the writing on the box, I gave him a quick squirt of water, quick mainly because the whole gizmo wasn’t very reliable. But it was good enough for a laugh.
The English tradition is more subtle: morning only, and no slapstick. The best marks are getting someone to head off on a fool’s errand, like the time I sent my brother down the end of the garden to chase pigeons from out of the peas. He should have had enough sense to know there aren’t any peas start of April! But then again, he was the one who, when little, wanted to help with watering the garden, so I gave him the end of the hose to hold while I went to turn it on – somehow I told him to keep an eye on it, never thinking he would – literally. Tap on, dash outside to get the end before the water goes everywhere, only to find him peering fascinated into it, wondering what was making the air rush out so fast…my mother was not best amused.
Javascript slideshows must be a joke all their own. I can only hope this website is maintained by volunteers and not professionals, it’s the only excuse.
Ah, now that’s vintage trolling. Takes me back to 2006! /sniff