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No I havent tried the mini chute yet, I still have the 3 foot shoot attached. Is that about the right size? 3 feet?

Lol..sorry I meant potatoage found it. Sorry potatorage.

I dont know how I would deploy a safety back up parachute. How would I do that?

Ok ill make me a mini shoot. :)

Yeah I tested it with an egg and some gravel. Wood a single piece of string with a crumpled ball of paper at its end be a good pilot chute?

Well I tested it and it worked! I didnt even need the parachute or sack of cornstarch and water. Apparently when we do the real contest tommorrow they with make the casks tumble when they throw them. I want to put a small 4 foot parachute on it now just for fun but I need an idea of how I...

I padded the decohedron with paper on the inside and put my sack in it. I will test it today. I thought about using elastic bands but I was afraid the egg would hit the inside of the box. Ok I found some painters plastic so I should be able to make the 7 foot parachute.

I found a good website called magnets4less.com They have really cheap magnets.

I need neodymium magnets and I need alot of them. Some are for me and some I will be giving to my highschool robotics team. Let me know how many you have and what you want for them. Thanks

OH NO I CAN ONLY MAKE A 3 FOOT DIAMETER SHOOT OUT OF ONE PLASTIC BAG! How am I supposed to make a 5 foot shoot? Im not exactly sure how much it all weighs But im guessing at the most it will be 2 pounds. I really think it will be around 1 and a half pounds though. I went ahead and lined the...

Ok A 1 meter cicle it is then.

Yes the egg is being compressed on all sides and thus will not break. Should I cut my garbage bag up so I have one really big single layer rectangular parachute? Or is it better to have a smaller parachute that is double layered?

But people were dropping their eggs off buildings and roofs and it wasnt breaking and they didnt have anything slowing the egg down, no parachutes, nothing. The non newtonian fluid and cardboard will absorb the inisual impact shock and the parachute will help reduce the impact shock before it...

Ok I dont have any plastic laundry bags but I do have one of those black plastic glad bags. Should I cut it apart into a single layer rectangle parachute or should I leave it like it is (double layered) and just punch some holes in the corners for the strings going to the egg capsule?

Non newtonian fluid is fluid that can become really hard when alot of force is applied but as soon as the force is released the object can slowly sink into it. Newtonian fluid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-non-newtonian-fluid.htm

I was talking to laserbee. He suggested popcorn or socks. Is corrugated cardboard just that carboard wit the triangles inbetween the flat panels? I really think that non newtonian fluid will help alot. I just found a video of someone dropping it off a 3 story building with nothing slowing...

Popcorn Great idea! What do you think I should mak ethe decahedron out of? Wood is sturdy but heavy. I think I will put the egg in a sack filled with the non newtonian mixture( cornstarch and water) then put it in the decahedron. I will then tie a light weight laundry sack parachute on it...

I dont know. I didnt post anything about an egg drop competition last year.

Ok here are the rules. I was thinking I could make some kind of parachute and have a wood decahedron box surrounding the egg.

I need some way to protect an egg from a 3 story fall. The egg has to be in some sort of dodecahedron shell. I cant use any packing materials. I need to find a design by tommorrow! Does anyone have any ideas on how to protect this egg?