April Fools' 2014 Jokes for Enginerds

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:35:12 +0000

Each year it is fun to see who gets “got”. With Twitter fever getter hotter each day, people can’t help but spread juicy news details. Here’s a running list of the April Fool’s Gags I ran across in 2014 (updated links at top of list) OSHPark is going to switch to Green PCBs https://twitter.com/oshpark/status/451084822317113344 Instructables going to sell all their Instrustables in a single book http://www.instructables.com/community/Coming-Soon-EVERY-Instructable-one-massive-book/ Waze Introduces WazeDates (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCS9CN91RU Make Magazine’s list of reader’s pranks http://makezine.com/2014/04/01/prank-call-and-answer/ Sphero Introduces “Selfibot” (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaR4X2iJo6M Raspberry Pi Shows off new retro design Click here for a Cached Screenshot of the Pi Joke Page Kickstarter is changing it’s name (less vowels) https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/the-new-kickstartr Single Person Tool Shop, Boldport, Acquired by Apple http://boldport.blogspot.com/2014/04/apple-acquires-boldport.html Octopart Now supporting Snapchat http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2014/4/now-send-rfqs-using-snapchat%2521 iFixIt Acquired by Apple http://www.ifixit.com/apple_press_release Complete with red herring as shown in their new Smartphone Replaceability Indexes Think Geek’s Flux Capacitor Charger Seriously hope this one becomes real: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1ba1/ Sparkfun ran a sporting contest https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1443 Bored Elon Musk’s Tweet on if you should do an April Fool’s Joke https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/450765914875518976 I can’t help but think that Apple is going to not like repeatedly being used in these yearly jokes. What jokes have I missed or what were your favorites? Leave them in the comments.

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April Fools' 2014 Jokes for Enginerds