Intro to Creative Play - Week 3

My team's tower, which was made for the purpose of supporting an egg without it falling and also being as tall as possible, and made using only very basic materials. There were many different ideas coming from each of our team members, most of which were all combined within the final product, thus showing how many creative minds can come together to produce better outcomes, as our tower held the egg successfully and was also the highest, therefore winning.

 The previous task was created for us to introduce us to 'Rapid Prototyping', which is where a range of techniques are used to quickly produce a product. For the second task, we were tasked to take what we learned from the previous task (which in my case was to combine all our best ideas) and apply it to a task which allowed a lot more planning, preparing and creating. Above are the sketches which we made when coming up with ideas for how to make an egg safely land from a three story drop (our task).

 This was my main contribution to the ideas generating stage. I had an idea to keep the egg suspended via elastic bands inside a box, therefore preventing it from making impact with the ground as the box hits it. However, we decided to leave this idea as we didn't think the box would be sustainable. Unfortunately, another team had the same idea and went through with it right up to the production and building stages, and it succeeded with protecting the egg. 

 This was our backup idea, where the egg (stylised as Spiderman) was simply lowered down via a string, as there was nothing strictly in the rules which went against that. Despite the almost 'cheating' approach, it was dropped to early and the egg was smashed.

Above is the drop which the eggs had to endure and the aftermath on the idea that we settled on (the initial sketches of which can be seen further up), which involved many cones inside one another in hopes of absorbing the impact. However, perhaps due to the fact that not all of our teams contributions were considered, the final product was not successful, however at least managed to contain most of the spillage.