Screaming chocolate bunny makes saying ‘No” to sweets just a little simpler

Has one other calorie-laden vacation left you with a mountain of sweet and little or no willpower to withstand it? Eating chocolate bunnies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is much less interesting once they’re upgraded with edible electronics and an Arduino that makes the bunny scream in terror as you chunk off its physique elements.

Trying to avoid a headache or a sugar crash is enough motivation for some of us to hide the Easter leftovers deep in the freezer, but for those who can’t resist the siren’s call of all that chocolate, negative psychological reinforcement could very well be a better approach—assuming they’re empathetic enough to feel bad when a bunny’s screaming about its ear being bitten off.

Even with electrical chopsticks and camera-equipped capsules you may swallow, electronics and meals are a tricky pairing, requiring YouTube’s Repeated Failure channel to experiment with completely different approaches to creating edible wires that had been each fit for human consumption and conductive sufficient to set off an Arduino to play screaming sound results. Everything from silver cake paint to a conductive flavorless paste called oleogel had been examined, however most easily weren’t conductive sufficient for this creation to work. Eventually, the YouTuber settled on silver leaf, which is simply pure silver pounded as flat as delicate tissue paper. In small quantities, it’s been deemed secure to eat.

A trio of silver loops were applied to the back of a chocolate bunny and then wired into the Arduino using copper tape, and the rest of the electronics, including a speaker, were hidden away inside a 3D-printed base that looked like a grassy hill the bunny was sitting on.

Depending on which part of the bunny is bitten off—its tail, its ears, or its entire head—a different unsettling scream will play, which will hopefully deter further consumption. It’s a clever idea, but why stop at bunnies? A pizza with a conductive crust that audibly counts out every slice you eat would be a welcome upgrade too for those of us who can’t seem to stop until the entire box is empty.