Identify the Problem
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Client Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer Ages: High school aged
Designer Marisa Pummer
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 sizable 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 high school students.
Constraints-
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 – ¾″ hardwood cubes.
2. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
3. Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
4. No two puzzle parts can be the same.
5. The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 ¼″ cube.
6. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
7. The puzzle should require high school students an average of 5 minutes to solve.
Generate concepts
To start out I created several possible puzzle pieces, to get a feel for what sort of shapes I could make my parts into. I made 4 part pieces, 5 part pieces, and 6 part pieces, because those sizes fit the constraints of the project.
Develop Solutions
I created two possible solutions in order to see which solution I preferred. I chose my first solution, because the pieces were much more interesting and they were not as similar to each other as the pieces in my second solution. I drew isometric pictures of each part in this solution, and colored them based on the plastic colors we have available for the 3D printer.
I then measured twenty cubes and found an acceptable tolerance for the sizes of the cubes to ensure that all pieces fit together properly. The accepted tolerance I found for my cubes were cubes that had side lengths greater than 0.736 inches and less than 0.764 inches. I found this using standard deviation.
Construct and Test a Prototype
I tested my cube by having several people attempt to complete my cube to see if it was a reasonable difficulty level for high school students.
I had several out liars, so with them removed my average time was 4 minutes and 53 seconds, which is very close to my target time.
I also did multiview sketches of all my parts, seen below in the gallery at the bottom of the page.
Evaluate
I think I did reasonably well on this project, I had several issues with the technology involved, including this website, but I managed to create a working model of my puzzle cube that fit all the constraints, and I had a lot of fun making and testing it. This project went very well and I am excited to see what the next project will be like!
Final Product!
The final product is in the gallery below along with my multiview sketches!
Copied from given document for assignment
Client Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer Ages: High school aged
Designer Marisa Pummer
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 sizable 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 high school students.
Constraints-
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 – ¾″ hardwood cubes.
2. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
3. Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
4. No two puzzle parts can be the same.
5. The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 ¼″ cube.
6. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
7. The puzzle should require high school students an average of 5 minutes to solve.
Generate concepts
To start out I created several possible puzzle pieces, to get a feel for what sort of shapes I could make my parts into. I made 4 part pieces, 5 part pieces, and 6 part pieces, because those sizes fit the constraints of the project.
Develop Solutions
I created two possible solutions in order to see which solution I preferred. I chose my first solution, because the pieces were much more interesting and they were not as similar to each other as the pieces in my second solution. I drew isometric pictures of each part in this solution, and colored them based on the plastic colors we have available for the 3D printer.
I then measured twenty cubes and found an acceptable tolerance for the sizes of the cubes to ensure that all pieces fit together properly. The accepted tolerance I found for my cubes were cubes that had side lengths greater than 0.736 inches and less than 0.764 inches. I found this using standard deviation.
Construct and Test a Prototype
I tested my cube by having several people attempt to complete my cube to see if it was a reasonable difficulty level for high school students.
I had several out liars, so with them removed my average time was 4 minutes and 53 seconds, which is very close to my target time.
I also did multiview sketches of all my parts, seen below in the gallery at the bottom of the page.
Evaluate
I think I did reasonably well on this project, I had several issues with the technology involved, including this website, but I managed to create a working model of my puzzle cube that fit all the constraints, and I had a lot of fun making and testing it. This project went very well and I am excited to see what the next project will be like!
Final Product!
The final product is in the gallery below along with my multiview sketches!