DES51's Adventure Ended

After finishing of our project and doing some finishing touches to our lander. Our class finally was ready to drop the eggs containing in our lander. Here is the final lander, the only thing is that the strings wasn't knotted yet, but other than that it is the same lander.

The complete egg lander with untied strings.

        Basically we had three drops our lander needs to survive in. First, was the stairs, second was the  and Rotunda, and the last drop was in the Roof of the School Building. All the links are hyperlinked to the words that I said in the top.
As you guys saw if you watched all three videos, all the drops that we did, survived. It was amazing of how it cracked a little in the stair drop. Then in the rotunda it didn't crack, but when it came to the roof, our egg cracked big time. Fortunately the egg survived with an earthquake on the sides of the egg, with no liquid surrounding the egg.
 Overall, the egg survived the adventures of the cliffs and still is alive till this only day. This of course, had some science behind this lander. First of all, according to the picture in the first paragraph as you see there is a parachute and under the pocket where we place the egg we placed a thin cardboard piece to act like a second parachute, that's mainly why it worked. The bamboo sticks on the sides also help the lander stay stable the whole time. It worked because our group really stuck together like a chain, and it never got broken. It was like a miracle because, when you watch the roof video really carefully you'll that when the lander impact the ground there was a loud sounder from the lander. I even heard it from the roof, for a second I thought DES 51 was dead. When my teammate took it out from the pocket the egg survived with a lot of scratches and scars. This indicates of how much effort he put in his adventure, to reach this far and to wit stand the fall from the cliff of TAISM.
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Egg Drop #4 Day 4

Today my group got all the things together and we organized all of the things. After we did that we started to get all of our materials and started crafting the lander. That took us atleast half the class, after we did that we did some finishing touches to our test model and checked it if it is stable. 

          

When we tried our lander, unfortunatly the parachute made the whole thing collapse when we dropped it. Luckily nothin severely broke, good thing we know why our lander flipped in the middle of the air, and why he parachute did open up normally. Form that data we now know what to improve and what to make it more stabilized.

                                                    Air Resistance

Air Resistance is basically things that make the Air go through a certain point of something. Like for example if I have a ball, it will have less air resistance than if I have a ball in a box. The ball will go faster because it has less air resistance than the other desgin. You can make the air resistance higher by changing the shape of the object with other materials. That why parachute is a really good example for air resistance.

If we did our lander from all kind of heights, some heights won't work and some will, because according to our latest trial, ours broke from a quite short distance. If we do it from a high place the parachute has more time to pop up and do its job, that's why in our case, our will pop up at a time that is not to slow and not to fast. After we fox the parachute and make it more balanced. In conclusion, I think the slowest height won't have a really good result, but a higher height will.

Egg Drop #3 Day 3

Today our group was working on our lander and we named it DES 58. We finally bought all the stuff we need to complete the lander. While Shreyaansh was buying the remaining stuff, Eli and I was working on the worksheet. Then when there was time left we started building our lander and almost got the base done, but it was not yet finished. 

        Our goal for next class is to finish the lander and start testing the materials of the lander. Specfially the string and how long the string should be to land to the ground with the most amount of times. Hopefully we could do some flight test with the golf ball and be ready for the last day of the project, where we drop the egg from the roof of the Taism building. I Hope we finish all these bullet points for next class.

Egg drop #2 Day 2

Today in science we worked on our lander. First of all, we bought some of the stuff that we need for our lander. We bought some of the stuff because in case if we bought too much, that means we lost some money for unnessasary stuff. We all went to the store together, but our data writer, Shreyaansh, writes it. We did some measuring for all the materials so we get the stuff just right. 

           I was happy that we ended up in this moment, because we actually did the measuring so we can build our lander right away next class. Everyone in my group help in all the ways I could've thought, otherwise it was a very good progress.

          For the next class I hope we start constructing our lander so we could a test flight right away. I hope we make our lander as expected so we could get the most sturdiest lander. Before we do that we have to test the parachute and then do the finishing touches of the lander.

        I hope in this end of the project it will work. I can't wait to see all of the other ideas that my other classmates have. I hope that our egg will survive the sped that is caused from the roof, and will not crack. Good luck to all the other groups.

Egg Drop # 1 Introduction

 In class we started a project called the egg drop. Basically, we have group and we are TeamX who design the lander or anything. This purpose of this project is to see what our heads can really think of, and the creativity that we have. Not only that, also we do this to experience what's it's like to be in a tema and construct a object of our own. 

             As some of you remembered, NASA launch a rover called curiosity, curiosity didn't just land here and not break. Engineers needed to build a craft that will withstand the amount of speed and the impact to the ground of Mars.

This is the reason why we are doing this project, to see if we can use the five steps of engineering to create with a group to succeed our objectives. Speaking about the steps, first is Ask, second imagine, thrid plan, create, and finally improve. Other than this, the purpose is to experience what's it's like to be a team and create something together. My Group includes Shreyaansh, and Eli

          Today, every person in our group presented all our ideas for the base of the creation. We had some difficulties on the first ideas, but eventually he had figured out the best one that can withstand at least 10 drops. We named our Egg and hope he won't break in the end of the project. We also measured the materials that we are going to use so it is just right.

          I think we did a pretty good job if I say so myself. We did the small sketch and figured the sum of the budget. We completed what we wanted to complete so that's a mission done for us. Next class our goal would be to at least build the base as we wanted and make it perfect as possible. And of course, do some test fight so we can do some further improvements.