Our class just finished with this project. But we had to drop ours from 20 ft with a 2.5in x 2.5in x 2.5in carrier.
You can see my second design here, which worked: http://corea2k.com/blog/wp-images/tempur_design.jpg
(My first design used peanut butter as padding, but it wasn't balanced...
I know there are several other "help, egg drop" threads in this forum, but my case if slightly different so here it is.
I'm dropping an egg (free fall) from about twenty feet. The restrictions for the carrier are: (a) carrier must fit inside of the dimensions of a 2.5 inch cube, (b) together...