Design:
The
in class assignment is to make an egg lander by only using 20 straws and half
newspaper. It takes us awhile to design for the most important part of the
lander, the base. That we used multiple triangles for our base so it would
acted like a spring and absorb the impact for the egg, and not let the raw egg
have direct impact towards the ground. After we finished with the base we cover
the top of the egg with more triangles, because if we don't the egg would fly
out of the container, it's a fairly simple structure for an egglander that is
made out of straw. However we're concerned about the lander will land the
opposite side so we added a badminton birdie like structure made out of
newspaper and straws on the top. Therefore we're positive about the lander will
fall the way we wanted to be.
Results: Unfortunately our egglander did not survive the landing. Due to the
fact that the egglander bounced in the air and landed sideways and popped the
egg from the side. Our base and the birdie on top worked perfectly as we
planned, but we didn't thought the egg lander would bounce and landed on the
side and cracked the egg.
Improvements:
To
improve our egg lander I would suggest we keep the original design of the egglander
and add more straws on the side and make the base bigger, therefore the egglander
will still do the same thing, secure the egg from the impact and not landed on its
side and crack. Another big factor that I think we failed it's because we used
a half cracked egg, it was leaking albumen at the moment, because we're
unprepared. I would strongly suggest to bring an healthy strong egg right on
the testing date, that would greatly increase the rate of preventing the egg
from cracking.
