SyracuseWolvrine
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I made an egg-drop container once that survived a 8 foot drop, then a 2 story drop, then a drop from the roof of our HS (3 1/2 stories high)
Our only restrictions were that whatever contraption we made had to be smaller than 12x6x6 inches and must be able to be opened without tools in less than 10 seconds, but we could use any materials we wanted. At the time, I was working at a shipping place that had a "foam-in-place" machine. I took a 12x6x6 box, and a hard boiled egg, used the hard boiled egg to make a foam mold using the machine. Then I took the hard boiled egg out, put in a layer of bubble wrap, and put in the raw egg. Used 4 large rubber bands to seal the box closed.
The container held for all 3 drops, no egg damage. The teacher dropped it off the roof of the building AGAIN. still survived. The egg finall broke when we started playing hackey-sack with the box, and one of the sides of the box split open, letting the egg fall out onto the sidewalk.
Our only restrictions were that whatever contraption we made had to be smaller than 12x6x6 inches and must be able to be opened without tools in less than 10 seconds, but we could use any materials we wanted. At the time, I was working at a shipping place that had a "foam-in-place" machine. I took a 12x6x6 box, and a hard boiled egg, used the hard boiled egg to make a foam mold using the machine. Then I took the hard boiled egg out, put in a layer of bubble wrap, and put in the raw egg. Used 4 large rubber bands to seal the box closed.
The container held for all 3 drops, no egg damage. The teacher dropped it off the roof of the building AGAIN. still survived. The egg finall broke when we started playing hackey-sack with the box, and one of the sides of the box split open, letting the egg fall out onto the sidewalk.
