Egg drop

[Robo Noob]

Hardboil it :D

That would be a big gross splat :(

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[laremere]

Leave it in the hen.

[Nightmare-Duckie]

i've done this with a light bulb (even though thats lighter), surround it with something leaving places of air so the impact can spread evenly, you'll have to do what i did with paper (you should use something other then paper) x10 because i had to drop the light bulb from a ladder

[Dr Bling]

Just rap it in a thick blanket and duck tape it :D

[Sirrus]

If you can make any harness you want/need to, suspend the egg within a wireframe cube with springs at all the vertexes. In the center box, put padding and the egg. If you're having trouble seeing this, allow me to confuse you even more with a diagram I cobbled together in paint.

Black is wireframes, blue is springs, gray is egg, orange is padding.

[DrMobius]

Same here, but when did off topic become homework helpline? Seriously? Use google for pete's sakes you lazy bastards.

This is more entertaining

[Rughugger]

This is more entertaining

Well I suppose because depending on the mood, most people would advise em in ways to fail. But it's no fun if you can't see the end result. :(

[DrMobius]

:(
Can't take videos in school
Either way, my phone doesn't do that

[Rughugger]

Well I know I failed when I did it on my trial run. I tried the mid air spring suspension using coiled fishing line, but that was too rigid and didn't allow for a kickback on impact. Then I went to the pudding method....that just left me with a large mess. So what I did was I encased it in a solid chunk of ice. It survived. Took forever to freeze fully. Won't work if it isn't.

[DrMobius]

Do you think that 2 hours of maybe not being in a freezer would screw it up?
Won't work...  Teacher gives us the egg when we get to class that day.

[Dr Bling]

It would thaw on the outsides first, so if its big enough probably not.


Also, if you are feeling lucky and want a surprise, you could just hardboil the egg and freeze it for about 2 days. Then use no covering and just drop it.

[Rughugger]

You don't even need to hard boil it. If there's no room for the egg to move inside the ice block, it has no momentum to smash against anything and therefore remain intact. However, when you crack it open afterwards, you'd have scrambled eggs. lol

[DrMobius]

Would wraping it in a few inches thick of bubble wrap and sticking it in a box work?

[Dr Bling]

Would wraping it in a few inches thick of bubble wrap and sticking it in a box work?

An idea to add on to that: wrap that bubbled wrapped egg in a blanket and stick it in a small box, then wrap that box in a blanket and stick it in a bigger box, with about 3 or 4 boxes/blankets it would create a sort of suspension for the already bubbled wrapped egg.

[Rughugger]

lol not really.
Freezing the thing overnight is what I did to make sure that it was frozen through. Although I think the main reason mine didn't break from that was because the egg was frozen as well. Might not count for you these days. My teachers didn't allow that the next year underclassmen tried.

If you took a mix of jello gelatin and poured it evenly inside the box with bubblewrap, that might work better.