Modulus- Carboard that goes Boing!

Assignment- You have 2 weeks to come up with a unique and fully functional piece of Cardboard furniture. You may only use cardboard and adhesive, like the Frank Ghery wiggle chair. I decided to draw inspiration from an old engineering lesson I liked about a property of materials called Young's Modulus. In short, any given material like steel or wood has a point where it can bend and snap back elastically without damage. I decided to find out what that limit was for cardboard and design something around it. The result was cardboard that bounces like a spring and acts more like a cushion! This won the Best in Show award at the NJIT IDSA SHOWCASE which had about 50 projects!

I strongly suggest you play this video in order to understand this project. This is no mere block of cardboard, it is an advanced piece of Fun-gineering!

Prototypes and experiments were made to improve the spring properties. The googly-eyed guy was a lot of fun to play with and was the proof of concept. The goal was to learn exactly how much spring tension I could cause in cardboard without going over the elastic deformation limit of Carboard as defined by Young's Modulus. The name of the project is derived from that concept, as well as the fact that the stool itself is modular and can tesselate with its brethren.

Thanks for checking out this project!

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