Calling all mad scientists, nerds, geeks and craft mavens. Stories have seemed pretty serious on the pages of Cooking Teens Magazine recently. So we decided to cut loose a little with some scientific Easter egg fun. Today we look at the Egg-Bot, a programmable robot that decorates eggs with any number of patterns, colors or drawings you can come up with using open-source software.

You don’t have to be an egg afficionado to appreciate the little bot. It also works on pumpkins, ping pong balls – even light bulbs – anything spherical that you want to draw on. You don’t even need to buy fancy printer ink. A fine point Sharpie will work just fine.

Egg-Bot takes its decorating instructions from you. Just draw what you want the design to look like, program that into free software and the little bot will do the rest. (Photo by EVIL MAD SCIENTIST via CoolMomTech.com)