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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge Final Portfolio

Martia Williams completed a puzzle cube design challenge for a local office furniture company. The company wanted to create novelty puzzle items from scrap wood cubes to sell in their showroom. Martia's design consisted of 5 puzzle parts made from 4-6 cubes each that fit together to form a 2 1/4 inch cube. Some puzzle parts interlocked to provide an appropriate challenge level for high school students to solve in around 10 minutes. Martia documented the design process, created models, tested a prototype, and concluded the design met the criteria and challenge level.

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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge Final Portfolio

Martia Williams completed a puzzle cube design challenge for a local office furniture company. The company wanted to create novelty puzzle items from scrap wood cubes to sell in their showroom. Martia's design consisted of 5 puzzle parts made from 4-6 cubes each that fit together to form a 2 1/4 inch cube. Some puzzle parts interlocked to provide an appropriate challenge level for high school students to solve in around 10 minutes. Martia documented the design process, created models, tested a prototype, and concluded the design met the criteria and challenge level.

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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge

Martia Williams
IED- 2nd Period

Autobiography

My name is Martia Williams. I am currently a freshman at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High


School. I have completed this project as a part of Mrs. Laings 2nd Period Project Lead The Way
Class.

Puzzle Design Challenge Brief


Client

Fine Office Furniture, Inc.

Target Consumer

Ages: High school aged

Designer

_____________________________________

Problem Statement
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of
scrap 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 high school students.

Criteria
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 hardwood cubes.
1. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
2. Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six
hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
3. No two puzzle parts can be the same.
4. The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 cube.
5. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
6. The puzzle should require high school students an average of ______
minutes/seconds to solve. (Fill in your target solution time.)

Submittal
View the Portfolio presentation. Create a project portfolio to include the following:
Design Process Description. Summarize your work during each step of the
design process. Include documentation (written work, sketches, CAD
drawings, images, etc.) to support your discussion. Your documentation must
include the following information located in the appropriate Design Process
step:
o Title page o Brief autobiography and your picture o Puzzle Design
Challenge Brief
o Brainstorming Possible Part Combinations (Activity 4.1a Puzzle Part
Combinations) o Isometric sketches of two possible complete Puzzle
Cube designs o Justification of your chosen Puzzle Cube design solution
o Multi-view sketch, fully dimensioned of each of the five puzzle parts in
your chosen design (Activity 4.1b Graphical Modeling)
o CAD drawing(s) displaying a fully dimensioned multi-view of each
puzzle part and two different isometric views of the assembled puzzle.
o Drawing review comments from a classmate.
o Image(s) of your building process and puzzle prototype. o Physical
model of your puzzle. o Statistics related to the solution time of your
puzzle as required above.
o A written summary of your puzzle test results and a discussion of the
validity of your design. Does your design meet the design criteria?
Does your design provide an appropriate degree of challenge to high
school students (as stated in the design statement)?
o A discussion of possible changes to your puzzle cube that would
improve the design.

Why I chose the above design for this project.


I chose the design labeled difficult for this project because it would be more challenging for the
target audience, high school aged teenagers, than the design labeled easy. I feel that it was
more challenging because the type of pieces used in the difficult design were more complicated
than the puzzle pieces used in the easy design. Which, in turn, makes the overall puzzle more
complicated.

Summary
I believe that my puzzle cube does meet the design criteria and I believe that it does create enough
challenge for a high school aged student.

Conclusion Questions
1. Why is it important to model an idea before making a final prototype?
Its important to model an idea first because if you make a mistake you can fix it before
making the final.
2. Which assembly constraint(s) did you use to constrain the parts of the puzzle to the
assembly such that it did not move? Describe each of the constraint types used and explain
the degrees of freedom that are removed when each is applied between two parts. You
may wish to create a sketch to help explain your description.
I used the mate and flush constraints in the puzzle cube assembly in order to make sure
that the parts did not move. Mate joins surfaces together and flush aligns the surfaces
based on a common edge. When you create these constraints, you are removing the
degrees of freedom between the two surfaces.
3. 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 the work that you completed for this project. It means that a
person went step by step through the design process and used those steps to come up with
a final solution. For example, in my project I started with brainstorming and then went step
by step through the design process in order to get a final project.
Question Numbers 4 and 5 can not be answered.

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