Container Development

We have finished making our container for the most part. We might make a few adjustments here and there but other than that we are pretty much finished. We have wrapped that whole container up with duct tape so now it is all grey. There is going to be a flip camera in the middle compartment, a GPS (which is an iphone) in the middle compartment as well, and two compartments on the sides for either one camera and another flip camera or two cameras. We have tested how durable our container is when it is dropped from a high height with the flip camera inside. When it hits the ground it absorbs all the shock of the fall and it protects the flip. This testing was done without a parachute. Then we tested it with a parachute and it worked very well. Today we are going to see how many balloons it takes to lift the container off of the ground. It shouldn't take too many because our container is the lightest container out of all the containers being made. We have calculated the mass of our container when it has all of the cameras and GPS in it. Then we took the acceleration that we want the container to go up into the air and we multiplied those two measurements and we got the force that we need to get the container into the air without falling back down too soon.