Puzzle Cube Project
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Problem Statement:
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap ¾" hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement:
Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older.
Constraints:
1.The puzzle must be fabricated from 27, ¾" hardwood cubes.
2.The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
3.Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least three, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
4.No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
5.The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼" cube.
6.Some puzzle parts should interlock.
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap ¾" hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement:
Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or older.
Constraints:
1.The puzzle must be fabricated from 27, ¾" hardwood cubes.
2.The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
3.Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least three, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
4.No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
5.The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼" cube.
6.Some puzzle parts should interlock.
Possible Puzzle Pieces
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We made our puzzle cubes by drawing possible puzzle pieces. We drew several puzzle pieces and picked five puzzle pieces to make our cube.
Possible Puzzle Cubes
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We drew two possible puzzle cube designs. These designs helped us decide what our puzzle cube should be.It also helped us decide what possible puzzle pieces would work better together.
Design Matrix
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We used a design matrix to help figure out what cube we wanted to make. The design matrix sorted categories and we rated the puzzle cubes by: difficulty, interlocking puzzle cube pieces, 3-6 blocks on each puzzle piece,a total of 5 puzzle pieces, and is the cube unique. Then you added the total points, and the puzzle cube with the most points is the puzzle cube that we would make.
Puzzle Cube Pieces
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We drew and dimensioned our five puzzle cube pieces. This helped us see our pieces from top, bottom, and side view.
Exploded View
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We made a three-dimensional version of our cube on the computer. This helped us figure out if our pieces would fit together to form the puzzle cube, and gave us an idea of what the puzzle cube should look like.
Prototype
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We built a prototype for our puzzle cube. This helped us see if our puzzle cube was a success and was the puzzle cube difficult.
Parts List
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We made a parts list to show each puzzle pieces dimensioning form top, bottom, and side view. This helped us make sure our drawings and dimensioning of each puzzle piece was done correctly.
Conclusion
Conclusion
1.Why is it important to model an idea before making a final prototype? It is important to model an idea before making a final prototype
because you want to see if you made any mistakes in making your cube and to see if your design will work as designed.
2.Based on your experiences during the completion of the Puzzle Design Challenge, what is meant when someone says, “I used a design process to solve the problem at hand”? Explain your answer, using examples from the work you completed. Based on my experiences during the completion of the Puzzle Design Challenge when someone says," I used a design process to solve the work at hand," it means they used all twelve steps to build the puzzle cube. They used an organized, intelligent, and a multi-step process to build the puzzle cube to its exact magnifications and solve the problem at hand instead of trying to build the puzzle cube without knowing what you are doing.
3.What else could the furniture company do or make with the scrap used to make your puzzle cube? The furniture company can use scarps uses to make my puzzle cube to build kid's chairs, trays, and kid's tables.
4.If your design were going to be mass-produced, would hardwood cubes be the best material from which to construct the puzzle pieces? Explain your answer. If my design were to be mass-produced I think plastic interlocking cubes would work better because they are cheap and reusable.
5.What forms of technical communication did you utilize during your work on the Puzzle Design Challenge? The forms of technical communication that I utilized during my work on the Puzzle Design Challenge were dimensioning, top, bottom, and side views, and drawings of the puzzle cube pieces.
1.Why is it important to model an idea before making a final prototype? It is important to model an idea before making a final prototype
because you want to see if you made any mistakes in making your cube and to see if your design will work as designed.
2.Based on your experiences during the completion of the Puzzle Design Challenge, what is meant when someone says, “I used a design process to solve the problem at hand”? Explain your answer, using examples from the work you completed. Based on my experiences during the completion of the Puzzle Design Challenge when someone says," I used a design process to solve the work at hand," it means they used all twelve steps to build the puzzle cube. They used an organized, intelligent, and a multi-step process to build the puzzle cube to its exact magnifications and solve the problem at hand instead of trying to build the puzzle cube without knowing what you are doing.
3.What else could the furniture company do or make with the scrap used to make your puzzle cube? The furniture company can use scarps uses to make my puzzle cube to build kid's chairs, trays, and kid's tables.
4.If your design were going to be mass-produced, would hardwood cubes be the best material from which to construct the puzzle pieces? Explain your answer. If my design were to be mass-produced I think plastic interlocking cubes would work better because they are cheap and reusable.
5.What forms of technical communication did you utilize during your work on the Puzzle Design Challenge? The forms of technical communication that I utilized during my work on the Puzzle Design Challenge were dimensioning, top, bottom, and side views, and drawings of the puzzle cube pieces.