egg drop

I worked with Taylor on the egg drop. As soon as we partnered up, we voted on doing a very simple design. We didn't want to take the time to build something elaborate, especially if it didn't work. Our original plans were to go to target, get some soft things like cotton balls, put it all in a box, and be good to go.

We decided to build on Sunday, and I had come up with the idea of pillows because we had two sitting around in my room in the closet. That seemed like a good idea, but just to be sure we also wrapped the egg in a liquid ice pack, and a dish towel and the surrounded that with the two pillows. We then threw it out of my 2nd story window to test it, and it was perfectly fine.

In class, our design also worked, both on the concrete and the dirt surfaces. When trying to minimize our design, we went to only the ice pack surrounding the egg. There was not enough give in the ice pack, which burst upon impact, which caused the egg to break. I think if the ice pack had more give, and a more sturdy outer casing, it may have worked.