Design Plastic Cups
How to design a contraption that will protect a raw egg from cracking when dropped from about 40ft high ?
Only materials that can be used:
Regular plastic drinking straws
Cotton balls
Toothpicks
Tape
Glue
Balloons filled with air from lings
Empty standard size soup can
Play-dough
Dixie wax cup
8×11 standard printer paper
Note: No action can be done once the egg is placed into the contraption.
oh wow. I won a contest liked that with a contraption made 2 hours before it began a while back. if memory serves, I used a really thick wad of play-dough to cover the egg, wrapped dough egg with 8×11, fill 8 dixie cups with a small inflated balloon in each with some cotton balls filling the rest of the cups and tape them all to the wad carefully. you should have a porcupine shape to it. finish it off so that it looks like a pinata. make some more shock absorbers to that design and the egg might survive.
Home made plastic cup lamp