Process:
define problem:
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.
Criteria:
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 four, 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.
Criteria:
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 four, 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.
sketches:
The type of sketches were orthographic and oblique. I used these types to learn how to draw this sketches. I drew many figures. In particular a 3-by-3 cube. I combined the pieces we made into a puzzle cube.
possible pieces:
I created many pieces like:pieces with 4,5,and 6 cubes.
2 complete solutions
I used the pieces i created to create two cubes. I used some cubes that my instructor gave me to create a model. I also used my imagination.
inventor model
I with the help of three other friends created a simple model. It had five different pieces.
dimensioning
I used the computer to help me dimension the five pieces. I had a parts list too.
dial calipers
I used a dial caliper to measure the wooden cubes. It helped me because if i didn't had the measurements I could've messed up.
statistics
I created the statistics in the computer. I got the average of the measurements of the cubes I measured. I also got the frequency and the histograms.
built cube
The cube was finished and colored in two days.
test cube to determent difficulty
The cubes difficulty was the hardest because nobody that tried it was able to solve it. Not even the teacher was able to solve it.