IET 330 Industrial Design

Lab 1: Float Shoes

Team Members:
Johnathan Fyffe
Shane Holbrook

While thinking of a design that would work for this project our first thoughts were
Styrofoam. We all know its lightweight and very buoyant. After a few minutes of
working with the CAD software we came up with this:

Having two pieces of Styrofoam attached at the middle with a PVC pipe, would make it
more stable. When it was all said and done both shoes would be more than enough to
hold a 110 lbs. person above the water. Together both shoes would look like this:

While we had a time crunch to get this task finished, getting our hands an enough
Styrofoam seemed impossible or more than we wanted to spend. Sticking with the same
basic design we decided to use empty plastic milk cartoons instead. Securing the milk
cartoons together with duck tape should provide us the stability and buoyancy that we
need to walk on water. We took some basic math calculations to figure out exactly how
many milk cartoons we would need. (See below)

One Empty Plastic Milk Carton

L: 101.6 cm
W: 15.24 cm
H: 15.24 cm

Volume: 23,597.37 cm^3

Eight of the milk cartons combined to make one shoe:
L: 406.4 cm
W: 15.24 cm
H: 15.24 cm
Volume: 94,389.49 cm^3
When taken into account with our person of 110 pounds:
Person covering the volume of the shoe:
Volume: 94,389.49 cm^3
Mass: 49,896 grams
Density: 0.53 g/cm^3
Person + shoe:
Volume: 94,389.49 cm^3
Mass: 50,148 grams
Density: 0.53 g/cm^3
Which means:
Pf Vs = Po Vo
1.00 (50,026.43) = 0.53 (94,389.49)
50,026.43 = 50,026.43
Which shows that 53% of this will actual be submerged, and that it should float. Below is
our final product: