Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

Cardboard challenge accepted! It only needs to work once, right? Like an egg drop. :D

I'll classify that as a win condition if the normal tea ustensils remain in a usable form for the next time. There's a lot of cardboard to use up.

Omg! :D So I am thinking wet cardboard rips easier than dry one. So single-use timer based on capillary effect? When it rips it pulls out the tea bag, or drops the cup. Would require some testing to see how reproducible the timing is.

Or use capillary effect to move liquid to slowly change the balance on a makeshift scale. That's probably even better..

just don't dip the cardboard into my tea, I'm sure that won't improve the flavor xD there's always a bit of leftover water that I can put on The Contraption™ though

Of course! Also, it must not spill more than a few drops of the tea. The timer is clearly the critical component. So that should be designed and tested first. Building the rest of the contraption around whatever timer works should be pretty easy then..