A couple of weeks ago, I told you guys about my newly hatched obsession with the mobile game Egg Inc., which is a deceptively simple and uncannily addictive time occupier that demands a lot of tapping to churn out more chickens. More than a few of you picked up the habit, but one person went the extra mile by crafting her own screen-tapping robot to save her the repetitive strain injury (which, I can confirm, is a real danger with this game):

Christine Sunu pulled together some open-source software and very basic hardware components… then wrapped them up in a sock dressed…

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