Egg Drop

Egg Drop

In the afternoon we did an egg drop, for this we had the same criteria as with the tower one, however style is not as important in this one:

1. Purpose is that the egg doesn’t brake (most important part) 

2. Time until it hits the floor (the longer the better)

3. Testability of how we test it while we create and planning

This time we were allowed to use any materials that were in the makerspace.

We started by coming up with ideas on what we should make. We thought it would be best to create a box for the egg, so that it would be safe inside of it, then we would put something inside of the box with the egg so that it was more secure. We also thought to use a parachute to slow down the falling process.

I then looked into the best way to create a parachute.

After that we started creating the final product, we used a takeaway cup that one of us had left over from lunch, this was instead of the box. We then cut up bits of foam and put them into the cup as instillation for the egg. Once we had filled the cup and had the egg inside of it, we threw it on the floor to see if it would be fine in the big fall, it was fine. 

Then we began creating the parachute, we had the idea that a carrier bag would be a good idea, but we could not find one and it would’ve been too small to slow down the egg enough. So instead we found a big sheet of plastic and cut it into a circle. Then we cut up some string so that they were each the same size, this was to attach the parachute to the cup.

I then began to come up with different ideas for the design of the cup or parachute, I found one character called Gudetama that is an egg, I drew one of the character onto a piece of paper and coloured it in, we then stuck it onto the parachute.

Once we did that we did a test drop from the actual drop site, the result was good however there was no accuracy with where it dropped. This drop made all of the strings that attached the parachute and the cup became tangled, so we had to tie them together at the top of the cup, as to make sure that it still dropped well.

Then it was time for the actual drop, it took 10 seconds to come to the ground floor and the egg stayed intact. However as I knew from the test drop, there was no accuracy and it did not all into the drop zone.

If I were to recreate this project, I would not change very much as the one we created worked well and did all of the requirements. One thing I would’ve changed though is the size of the parachute, I would make it smaller so that there would be more accuracy with where it landed.