This is my design 2nd design this is an improvement over the first design.
How does your prototype protect the egg? The wooden rods break the fall of the egg, because the kinetic energy has to go some where and the rods are where the kinetic energy is supposed to go.
Describe your design process, in detail. First, I made a few sketch’s on a piece of paper. Second, my partner and I chose which apparatus’s we liked the most. Then, we made the first design. After that, I decided that I wanted to make my apparatus smaller after the first one succeeded almost every time. Lastly, I discovered that it went over the 25 cm by 25 cm by 25 cm limit so I tried to cut the size down and failed. On the last day I succeeded in making it smaller.
What worked well in your design? The wooden sticks worked very well. There wasn’t even a hairline fracture in the egg. The second design worked well, too. The balloons worked in breaking the fall.
What was challenging throughout this process? What would you do differently? The challenge was when I found out that my apparatus was to big. I had to measure then cut all the wooden rods protruding out of my apparatus. I would measure my apparatus before the last day.