Egg Drop

For Wednesday, I designed and built an egg drop container with my partner Sanjay (blog available here: http://designintelligence121292.blogspot.com/ .) We brainstormed ideas to try and make the container as protective as possible for the egg inside. We did a little bit of research to find some ideas on structurally sound containers. We knew we needed to have buffer zones along the outside of the container, so that these attachments would take the beating from the fall instead of the egg inside. Likewise, we added some structure to the main container by adding supports on the inside of the box so it would not dent or collapse on impact. unfortunately, what we didn't account for was the potential for the box to be topheavy - the one place where we didn't add extra buffer zones, expecting it to land on the bottom, was the part it landed on. It flipped in midair during the fall, and the egg broke. However, we did learn through our own failure and other groups' success just what it takes to build a protective container.