Puzzle Cube Project
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 size able 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:
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 size able 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:
- The puzzle must be fabricated from 27, ¾” hardwood cubes.
- The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
- Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least three, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
- No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
- The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼” cube.
- Some puzzle parts should interlock.
Possible Puzzle Cube Pieces.
In class we talked about possible pieces and then we sketched them for home work and in class. We sketched them in 3-D.
Two Puzzle cube designs.
We got plastic cubes and created two cube designs. Then we sketched them by layer in our notebooks.
Decision Matrix.
Then we used a decision matrix to decide which cube design we were going to use.
3D model on Auto desk Inventor.
We got on the computer and made each piece on auto desk inventor and then put them together
multiview sketches and dimensions
we drew multi view drawings of each piece and dimensioned them.
parts list
we got on auto desk and created a parts list with each pieces multiviews and dimensions.
prototype
after we made the parts list we got 27 wooden cubes and glued them together to make the cube.
.Conclusion
1.Why is it important to model an idea before making a final prototype?
it is important to model an idea so you know exactly how to build it.
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.
That means that there are multiple steps to solve a problem. first we had to brainstorm like when we sketched the possible pieces. Identify criteria like when we could only use 5 pieces. then we explored possibilities when we sketched designs and put them together. After we used a decision matrix to decide on a design. Then we designed a proposal when we went on the computer to create the pieces. Then we made the pieces using wooden cubes to create the cube.
3.What else could the furniture company do or make with the scrap used to make your puzzle cube?
The company could make tine wooden toys with the scrap pieces that I used to make my cube.
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.
I would use wood if I were to mass produce my cube because it is cheap and durable.
5.What forms of technical communication did you utilize during your work on the Puzzle Design Challenge?
We used a computer to create the pieces and to make a parts list where we dimension each piece.
it is important to model an idea so you know exactly how to build it.
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.
That means that there are multiple steps to solve a problem. first we had to brainstorm like when we sketched the possible pieces. Identify criteria like when we could only use 5 pieces. then we explored possibilities when we sketched designs and put them together. After we used a decision matrix to decide on a design. Then we designed a proposal when we went on the computer to create the pieces. Then we made the pieces using wooden cubes to create the cube.
3.What else could the furniture company do or make with the scrap used to make your puzzle cube?
The company could make tine wooden toys with the scrap pieces that I used to make my cube.
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.
I would use wood if I were to mass produce my cube because it is cheap and durable.
5.What forms of technical communication did you utilize during your work on the Puzzle Design Challenge?
We used a computer to create the pieces and to make a parts list where we dimension each piece.