team X Journal Entry 2

 
             The Team X project has been making good  progress .In our design test we experimented how many strings we would use in our experiment.The number we decided on was 4 strings because when we experimented the 4 strings versus 2 strings,.the landing time was not that much different.The whole point of this so we could figure out which one would have the better resistance,which means  the opposite of the atmosphere to forward movement,also called aerodynamic drag.The other being the amount of forcible impact with the landing surface.After conducting the we experiment  our hypothesis was correct, i.e, 4 strings is the best option.The reason we chose 4 string because the more strings pulling the parachute the easier it is to have air resistance.When we dropped our contraption we had a very stable design which let us have a solid drop.The 4 shock absorbers we had put on made a major impact which helped the contraption and prevented cranking the egg upon impact.The other object which made a big difference was the thick cardboard making the landing much reliable.But the thing not doing so well has been our design when floating in the air.Because when we tested it 6 six times the parachute floated the wrong way which makes it hard to aim at the mark.But the one thing we learned has been the 2 pipe cleaners we had bought were quite useful when dropping the design.The pipe cleaners have been responsible for holding the egg in the middle and it has done exactly as we expected and has also been a shock absorber inside.Overall we have made a lot of progress from blog 1 ,and we are ready for Wednesday's drop test.

Team X Entry 1

Our task for the Team X project was to design a contraption that can hold a egg and for it not to crack.This was a mini simulation of how what the mars landing was going to be like such examples  are the egg could be a human and you don’t want it to crack,or how we have a target something like a place to land.The assigned group that I participated in was I.C.A short for Mini Ian,Cyrus and Ahmed.Our job was to create our contraption within 2 weeks.That meant that we needed to imagine our idea the first class,so we decided on a cardboard box that held the egg in and a parachute on top.The next class we got together to go over our ideas.This ended to be an argument but we compromised our plans.We decided to have 4 thick cardboard boxes that we could cut in half to have our sides,having 2 strings connecting it to the parachute.We also added more to our plan,me pitching an idea about having a shock absorber on each side.I also got a idea of wrapping the egg with pipe cleaners and attaching 2 on 2 sides.After we talked about all of these idea’s we wondered if adding some styrofoam inside would do any good.One of the idea’s which was pitched around was if we needed another box inside.Which would be great but with 15 millon left after adding up for our supplies we don’t know for now if it’s worth it.The altimate goal being if we need more reinforcement with the thick cardboard and if more shock obsorbers would be needed.So next class we would want to construct our idea and test it out to take data and to find flaws in our plan to fix.