Puzzle Cube
Client: Star Furniture
Target Comsumer: Ages 12+
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap 3/4" hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction process. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizable loss of profit.
Design Statement: Star Furniture 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 twelve years of age or older.
Constraints:
Procedure:
Target Comsumer: Ages 12+
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap 3/4" hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction process. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizable loss of profit.
Design Statement: Star Furniture 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 twelve years of age or older.
Constraints:
- The puzzle must be fabricated from 27, 3/4" hardwood cubes.
- The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle pieces.
- Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
- No two puzzle pieces can be the same shape.
- Puzzle pieces cannot be in the shape of a rectangle, "L", or a square.
- The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 1/4" cube.
- Some puzzle parts should interlock.
Procedure:
- We made a prototype.
- We drew isometric and multi-view drawings off of our prototype.
- We made 3D models on the computer using Inventor 2015.
- We made working drawings using Inventor 2015.