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Posted by: EngineerGuy ® EngineerDude 09/22/2005, 18:36:54 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
I am doing a project for my engineering class--an egg drop landing platform. All my research has found egg drop projects but they all involve altering the egg itself. I am not able to pad or alter the egg itself. I need to create a platform for it to land on so that it will not break when dropped from a height of about 30 feet. Any suggestions? |
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Posted by: randykimball ®  09/22/2005, 23:32:56 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
I do not usually do this, but today I can't help myself. Are you allowed to use a web of rubber bands looped together to form a platform similar to a spider web... ? Just me thinking like nature, always a wise starting place. Evolution has had many a year to develop some really slick tricks. I'd have something very sticky on the "platform" (see copy the spider) to prevent the egg from "escaping" on the rebond cycle. Perhaps a layer of plastic wrap anchored in the center and coated with a thin layer of honey so the plastic wrap will engulf the egg on impact and then trap it when the honey makes the plastic wrap cling.
-randy- The worst suggestion of your lifetime may be the catalyst to the grandest idea of the century, never let suggestions go unsaid nor fail to listen to them. |
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Posted by: abos ® 09/23/2005, 04:20:07 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
Hey EngineeringGuy!
Keep us posted on the results..  |
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Posted by: zekeman ® 09/23/2005, 16:07:51 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
I thought we don't solve school problems or projects Randy. |
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Posted by: randykimball ® 09/23/2005, 21:13:21 Author Profile Mail author Edit |
We don't... there are many solves to accomplish in this idea.. thing is... I want to see if it works.... ya caught me... oops!
.. I'm soooo bad... and human, too. The worst suggestion of your lifetime may be the catalyst to the grandest idea of the century, never let suggestions go unsaid nor fail to listen to them. |
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