Design This : Shock-Proof Egg Capsule
In 9th grade we had a science olympics, one of the events was to design a container that would protect one (1) raw chicken egg from being broken. I can't remember the rules, but your score improved as the container weighed less. The container would be dropped from successively higher drops until a winner emerged.
What would you design?
How would it work?
Keep the weight under 1lb of materials...
What would you design?
How would it work?
Keep the weight under 1lb of materials...
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Originally posted by drewprops
In 9th grade we had a science olympics, one of the events was to design a container that would protect one (1) raw chicken egg from being broken. I can't remember the rules, but your score improved as the container weighed less. The container would be dropped from successively higher drops until a winner emerged.
What would you design?
How would it work?
Keep the weight under 1lb of materials...
We did that in junior high too. I can't for the life of me recall what my team did for out container, but I do recall something about rubber band, and it failed.
I think the winner used a container tightly filled with popcorn, with the egg in the centre of the popcorn mass.
We designed a pyramid with a big copter blade to slow its descent. The egg rode in a little jacket, isolated from the walls with a system of rubber bands. Our egg broke on the first drop.
Can-boy won the whole shooting match.
oh, and string.
I made a gigantic frigging parachute *3* sheets of paper, string to a 'capsule' that was made out of paper that was braided together. stuffed that with whatever i had left, crumpled up.
the stupid parachute barely worked.
did survive 5 stories, though,along with others. it was simple: whoever survived from the second floor got a D, third, C, fourth, B, and fifth, A.