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Our high school did the egg drop project (design a device to drop an egg from a certain height without breaking), and I won it trivially by cutting out one sect
by rcthompson 5y ago
Our high school did the egg drop project (design a device to drop an egg from a certain height without breaking), and I won it trivially by cutting out one section of an egg carton and wedging it inside a cardboard tube from an empty paper towel roll, with fins on one end to make sure it landed on its end. I figured that egg carton manufacturers were the experts in preventing eggs from breaking.
- avnigo 5y agoI won ours using a very similar design: we were given a couple of sheets of paper and some tape. I rolled one of the sheets of paper into a tube the diameter of the egg, and placed the egg snugly near the bottom end of the tube so that it would have a low center of mass. I softly crumpled the other piece of paper into a small cylinder the diameter of the tube, and placed it under the egg in the tube to be used as cushioning. I was honestly surprised to see that such little cushioning helped it survive three 2 m drops, although it did get a hairline crack after the third drop!