Office Booby trap

This is a fun little Booby Trap that fires objects when a trip wire is pulled.
It is made from a few simple items that can be found around the office or home.

Needless to say, be careful what you fire at people.

Step 1 What you will need

3 Paper clips
Bottle Top
Rubber Band
Pliers (Needle-nose)
Ruler
String
2 Drawing Pins

Comments

[kenttin]

best thing i ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[markie]

thanx, this is the one i make. very nice for in the classroom XD

[jtimms1]

im having some trouble getting the ammo to sit still also any ideas for ammo and how would i mount it vertically without the ammo falling out?

[airgunguy123]

i love asdf movies

[I Am A Stegosaurus!]

"IT'S A TRAP!" Very nice instructable, too bad I haven't got enough supplies to build this.

[ducttapefixeseverything]

cool but to hard

[Danny1433]

really cool i made it just then

[tkdkid4]

I used the pins but it bent the tip so it was hard to make the other holes and i kept having to find new ones...

[njamspike]

exacto knife

[smashbob]

if you have an awl, use that instead. it works much better and gives you the ability to use thicker string. :D

[hondagofast]

I can do that with my hands

[njamspike]

same here

[DB2016]

Hehe. So can I. Heheh.

[ol987986]

i haz an idea get the drawing pins and poke sum1 who has AIDs and then it will be a deadly trap :)

[zachariahlebaron]

Well, that wouldn't work for numerous reasons. But it's best that you don't look into any of them, as this will keep you a minimal threat.

[ol987986]

well, turns out you were wrong. and now i got fired :( :L

[sci4me]

nice

[caalabo]

i straightened it with my hands but pliers would have been eisier

[DB2016]

Hehe... That's what she sai-- sorry.

[llamma1010]

Dead link Dead link
Pocket-Sized.co.uk
and
http://www.pocket-sized.co.uk/how-to/9/office-booby-trap
Dead link Dead link

signing out

[PocketSized]

My apologies, I'd completely forgotten about that link.
It used to link to my old website, which I am in the process of changing. I can assure you however that there have been no updates to this Instructable.

[dombeef]

You're back!
I was worried that you left or you died because your website was down for a while.
I joined because of your(this one) instructable!

[PocketSized]

lol, I've been very much alive.
My goodness! Having just looked at your Instructables I remember coming across your paper claw over at Make Magazine and wanting to make one. I'm glad to have played a role (if only very small) in getting you to sign up and show your obvious talents.

I still routinely visit the site and partake in personal projects however very rarely post anything. I think I may just have to start posting new projects again. Even if very small "booby trap" ones. Especially if it encourages more people to join the site and share their projects.

[dombeef]

Yeah, I have gone from my first bad instructable to making (I think) very good feature worthy instructables! I really thank you for bringing me here(not intentionally, but it still counts) to instructables! If I didn't see instructables before I would be totally different and I wouldn't have made any of the instructables that I posted!

I also have an instructable that is coming up that is better than all my instructables combined, or at least I think so, I was a finalist in two contests in a row, and I didn't win anything, so I am making this "secret" project for now so I wouldn't just be a finalist next time, but a winner hopefully.


And I am glad that you are back, I hope to see some more of your instructables soon! I have made a few every now and then since I saw this instructable.

[De.JMan]

yup its dead...

[NE patsrock]

looks awesome

[evilmadcow]

it is.

[NE patsrock]

khoul

[kmnrdrnnj#6]

...if only he would learn to ask(sigh)

[Dawson.J]

EPIC!!!!!!!

[De.JMan]

Hmm Would it be possible to rig the tripwire to more than one trap?? ..........maybe 3? .........or 10!?..

oh and if u want to take the string around tight corners i recommend putting them through "the bendy bits of drinking straws" ...it would reduce friction a lot...

[Mr. Pyro]

THIS IS EPIC! I shall make it in the morning. And probably hurt myself.

Also, as my name may suggest :P I burnt my leg with molten plastic today! only very minor though lol

[neelsarode]

this takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[nutsandbolts_64]

Heat a nail over a fire and then poke it at the desired spot. It works, literally, like a hot knife through butter.

[evilmadcow]

True.

[beehard44]

Or use the heated nail as projectile

[evilmadcow]

Your'e joking right?

[beehard44]

no
hell make me very mad wake up to 500 of these with heated nails by your bedside

[dombeef]

you were the 500th comment!

[evilmadcow]

so?