Most people just tap an egg on the side of a bowl, but for a seasoned hardware expert, that's a messy failure of design. What started as a simple kitchen tool quickly spiraled into a complex mechanical computer involving five-axis machining, silicone over-molding, and pneumatic ejection systems. Can a purely analog machine handle the chaotic variability of a biological shell, or is this a case where the cure is more exhausting than the disease?