Today Matthew and I met at my house to discuss the dropping aspect of the challenge. At the previous meeting we had gone down to the tech museum trial to test out some of our ideas. We weren't able to actually test our device by dropping it because CASSIE was too afraid that it would break. So the purpose of the meeting today was to work on a way to make sure our device survived the drop for the trial the next day. We decided to try and make a parachute out of an old garbage bag. We had talked about a parachute before but had never made a prototype for it. We decided to attach twine at the four corners and create a frame out of some coathangers to make sure the parachute opened correctly. In our test drops from the balcony it worked reasonably well but was a little unstable and tended to drift as it fell.
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