Describe your prototype design.
The inside is stuffing using earplugs and pieces of sponges, then there is a cup to hold it in, then there are ballons on the outside to break the fall, then it’s covered in duct tape to make everything stay in place, and on the bottom of the apparatus we have rolled up duct tape on the bottom to brace the fall if it hits the bottom.
How does your prototype protect the egg?
The apparatus breaks the fall with the balloons because the balloons break the fall because they have air in between the rubber that holds the balloon together then the stuffing will protect the egg from hitting the sides of the cup because they are also very airy and the duct tape will keep everything together.
Describe your design process, in detail.
We found the stuffing then we thought we need something to incase the egg, so we got a cup, then we need something to break the fall, so we thought BALLONS! But we chose regular balloons and that turned out not to work, so we got really long balloons and wrapped it around the cup. after that, we put padding on the bottom of it in the form of balled up duct tape.
What worked well in your design?
Everything worked apparently because our egg didn’t crack, the foam protected the egg, the cup held the egg in, the holein the cup was big enough for the egg to come out, the ballons worked well to sheild it because it was mostly air, and the duct tape held everything together.
What was challenging throughout this process? What would you do differently?
The only things that was kind of difficult was putting the balloons on because they had a hard time staying on adn making the hole big enough for the egg to fit through because i did not have much space to work with, but other than that everything went pretty smothly. I would do different is put more layers to protect the egg even better because I felt that the egg was not protected well.
