Egg drop

[mazei]

Well that suspension thing would work best i guess. Make is into a pyramid shape. It should work better.

 

[CAT13]

Easy. The rules say nothing about that you aren't allowed to put a box full of soft stuff on the landing spot then just drop the egg into the box. It would probably help to make a container for the drop, also.

EDIT: even easier. It is called a string. A long one.

 

[Unknown.soul]

even easier. It is called a string. A long one.

Eggsactly. (bad pun )

 

[fanwuq]

I had to do this with only uncooked pasta and tape a few year ago. I just layered the pasta at the bottom and it failed at 3ft, haha. I think the winning people made legs out of the pasta. The legs just broke at impact and the egg was fine.

 

[Bryan]

see-through plastic box filled with plastic foil(used to cover up food etc.)

FAIL:
Teacher would have to open box and remove plastic wrap.

No, You don't really need padding on the top, so just make the cover of the box clear.

"No effort to look at the egg" is very vague. It takes some effort to look. Do you need to see the entire egg? Or just parts of it?

Make a box that has a picture of an egg on the sides. Make the picture only appear when something is placed in the box.

Also, "No use of water, Jell-o, or similar". What's similar? Is foam similar? What about a rubbery component? Do they want to ban anything with a certain viscosity?

"Fall as fast as possible" - OK, so should I be building my design to specifically cut down on wind resistance?

Seriously, those regulations are poorly thought out.

Make a block that holds the end in a bunch of sand so that equal pressure is all around the egg to prevent cracking, and when the thing hits the ground, have it dump out the sand so that the egg becomes visible.

 

[zippur]

ok heres what you do.

tape your son to the egg.
have him cradle it like a little baby (awww so cute)
the throw him off.
he might not turn out so hot, but the egg will

 

[Unknown.soul]

His son would be considered as the "container" and he obviously weighs more than 125g (~.28 pounds)

 

[cardmagic12345]

Duct tape it to a puffy pillow and throw it so it lands on the opposite side.

 

[VP7]

Here is the design we came up with.

A pyramid shaped container popcorn as padding
Container just little bigger then egg.
Super glue popcorn to inside of container. (some loose)
Glue a cut toothpick to top of egg.
Egg at very center of pyramid base, ontop of popcorn.
Fold sides up hold together with super small piece of tape at top
sides will bulge out a bit.
Drop container, toothpick removes tape at top
Sides fall away from the pressure of popcorn. (not always all sides)
Popcorn will crush a little from weight of egg.
About 1/3 of the drops egg will roll.
Going to play the odds on this. 2/3 not too bad.

 

[Ton]

boil it first ,
the specs does not specify the type of egg, so you can choice
boil it first
use a stone egg etc
As specs are not clear you can select one

In that case I would use a mini fire escape shute, material can be a very light tube to slow down the fall
like
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The egg still drops ....

 

[Stefan]

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4608

And what's the goal of this? To win? If so, how is the winner determined?

 

[d4m4s74]

the winner is the egg which survives the highest drop

 

[Stefan]

the winner is the egg which survives the highest drop

Apparently not:

Drop of 30 feet onto concrete.

No height variation here.

 

[d4m4s74]

most blows survived? (drop, live, drop, live, drop, live, drop, omelet)

 

[mazei]

And once again Stefan beats us all with the best idea.

 

[Stefan]

And once again Stefan beats us all with the best idea.

Depends. No idea whether such a helicopter can indeed carry an egg. Also it doesn't match the "Fall fast as possable" spec. On the other hand, that spec is stupid.

Can we just get a copy of the full written rules including how to "win" (if it's a competition and "succeeding" alone isn't enough)?

 

[panyan]

i actually did this at school and what i did was i made a box to the required size and suspended an egg in it. I then filled the box with expanding foam and removed the box. What was left was a cube of foam with a seam where you could insert the egg and then put the two halves of foam around it and sellotape them together thus creating an impenetrable egg holder - mwahahaha


i actually won this competition, it was in our DT classes at school in 4th form