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The Annoy-O-Bug: A Chirping Light-Up Throwie

Stick this little electronic device practically anywhere and watch your friends go crazy as it beeps and blinks. They won't find it!

The Annoy-O-Bug: A Chirping Light-Up Throwie

Alex Wulff
22K
Halloween PIR Proximity Scare Speaker with Lighting Effects

A small compact outdoor motion-activated Halloween scare box with sound and optional light.

Halloween PIR Proximity Scare Speaker with Lighting Effects

syn
11K
No Candy For YOU!

A prank candy bowl that senses when someone tries to reach for a piece and automatically empties before they can get one.

No Candy For YOU!

Jonathan Tindal
3.8K
Arduino Darkness Activated Ghost

Ever wondered if you could build a device to scare your friends? Well here you have transform your room into a haunted house.

Arduino Darkness Activated Ghost

Technovation
7.0K

Turn Off the light, and it will turn ON: endless fun!

The Troll Switch

Aitor Gamarra
3.7K

A device capable of frightening my sister and compatible with other members of the family.

Automatic Fear 1.0

Alexis Santiago Allende
2.5K
Evil Fruit Bowl for April Fool’s Day

This April Fool's, one of our co-workers decided to get back at us with our own creation. The results lay before you. Enjoy!

Evil Fruit Bowl for April Fool’s Day

circuito.io team
6.4K
PrankChair: The Best April Fool's Prank!

PrankChair is a chair which looks normal but is too abnormal! ;)

PrankChair: The Best April Fool's Prank!

Siddhant Choyal
2.9K

This tutorial shows how to make a simple door prank using an Arduino board and 1Sheeld.

Simple Door Prank with Arduino 1Sheeld

Zowail
2.7K
Arduino HID Prank - Prank Your Friends !!

Prank your friends using Arduino – Upload the Arduino HID code, connect it to your friend's PC.

Arduino HID Prank - Prank Your Friends !!

Jithin Sanal
2.3K
Cool Arduino Prank with Circuito.io

This is a fun and relatively simple prank that is ideal to use anywhere. It is fairly simple to build using circuito.io and arduino.

Cool Arduino Prank with Circuito.io

Robin Kanattu Thomas
2.3K

I hacked a Pie Face game to give me complete control over if and when the pie is thrown.

Control Pie Face Wirelessly with Your Phone!

HarrisonMcIntyre
2.1K
Spooky Halloween Prank with Microcontroller

The TI LaunchPad™ development kit team decided to have some fun and use this spooky LaunchPad kit-based Halloween project to prank them.

Spooky Halloween Prank with Microcontroller

Daniel Ogilvie
1.9K
Canteen of Denial

The design relies on two printed bearings, as well as weight distribution and center of gravity to deny water to a would-be drinker.

Canteen of Denial

Kiefer Read
1.8K
Meow Power!!!

This is what happens when you prank the animal kingdom.

Meow Power!!!

George Kartsonas
1.7K
Arduino Prank Box (Just Open It)

Whenever you are going to open that prank box a music will be played with huge sound and shock you. You can gift this to anyone for prank.

Arduino Prank Box (Just Open It)

ASHRU ABHIJIT PATTNAIK
1.7K
Littlebits Arduino Keyboard Prank

Prank your friends with a Littlebits Arduino programmed to hit backspace and replace it with a smiley face every 5 secs. Hide it and enjoy!

Littlebits Arduino Keyboard Prank

Ron Dagdag
1.4K
NodeMCU Ghost Caller Prank

A simple IoT Ghost Caller prank, built with ESP8266 NodeMCU as web server

NodeMCU Ghost Caller Prank

Lintang Wisesa
1.1K

Last minute Halloween prank using Circuit Playground Express, Digispark board and some sensors.

Halloween Bathroom Prank

Nataliaaaaaaaa
1.1K
Wherzutat-In-a-Box - IoAT

IoAT - The Internet of Annoying Things used to make a hidden buzzer that will drive people crazy.

Wherzutat-In-a-Box - IoAT

wrightmac
872
Trick Cups

Oneshot, Rationer, Mirror Me, 6-Shooter, Ying vs Yang, The Friendsly Octopus

Trick Cups

Tom Fields
638
Annoyer

It is a prank... it makes annoying sound when the victim is trying to sleep...

Annoyer

Enzo
333
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