The Indestructable Box

The Challenge:

By yourself, build a LEGO box that holds at least two red or black “weight bricks” and can be consistently dropped (at least twice in a row without any tweaks) from a height of 2 meters without coming apart. As usual, you can expect to go through several iterations before you achieve the goal.

Initially this challenge was very difficult. I kept making boxes that were breaking but as I continued making the boxes, I found new ways to make it sturdier so that some very strong chunks of the box would stay together. After many attempts at reworking my first design, I decided to start over but use a simple idea from this first box in my next one. I discovered while working on this box that the sturdiest designs were the individual blocks that were pegged together and another identical structure to attach on the built in LEGO connection ridges going the opposite way.

In my original box, I used this design for the top and bottom of my box, but the side walls and overall connection of the box was weak. I used a similar idea in my second box except I used this idea all through out and I connected the box together with strong reinforcing vertical LEGO blocks using the flat plates to equate the flus.