This week my blog post will be about my egg drop project. My partner was Rachelle and in preparation for the egg drop project I spent a whole day after school at her house. We walked around in Target for two hours after brainstorming some ideas. We decided to use bubble wrap as our bag or container because that absorbs a lot of shock. Then on the inside we decided to use Timothy hay because we noticed that if you packed it in tightly, the egg on the inside wouldn't move. We also noticed that by stuffing the bubble wrap with something, it'd made the shape of the bubble wrap rounder which would've helped to absorb more of the shock. Unfortunately after all our hard work, the egg cracked anyway. It most likely cracked because it bounced, which was what we were trying to avoid entirely. I realized we could've done much more simpler things or even used cotton balls to stuff the bubble wrap instead of hay.
Ahhhh that was frustrating especially after spending so much time on trying to find an idea -_____- but now we know that we basically over-thought the thing and next time we should start with a simpler idea :P
ReplyDeleteYou had a great device but it probably didn't work because the hay didn't have any room to compress and absorb force upon impact because it was packed tightly
ReplyDeleteHaha i really thought that your capsule would work, but that's okay (: &just like Rachelle said, keeping it simple is best (:
ReplyDeleteIt was a good idea, but I think it would've worked if there was a little more cushion to protect the egg during the fall.
ReplyDeleteIm sorry to hear that your egg didn't survive. It was cool to see you use the grass through, very creative!
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