Puzzle Cube

Design
Challenge
By Michaella Bowen

Define the Problem

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Design Brief
Client
Furniture Manufacturing Company

Target Consumer
People who shop at furniture stores, preferably high school students.
Define the Problem
A local office furniture manufacturing company has thousands of hardwood cubes, that results from the
companys construction process. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizable loss of profit.

Design Statement
The furniture company wants the waste products to be converted into novelty items hat will be sold on the show
room. The puzzle cube system must show an appropriate degree of challenge to high school students. In creating
this three dimensional prototype, the following will be completed: design, testing, and documenting.
Criteria
27 cubes, 5 puzzle pieces, each piece must be made of 4-6 cubes, and all cubes must fit with in two standard
deviations of the mean length
Constraints
The size of the individual cue must be taken into consideration in order to make the puzzle fit together nicely. Try
to make the puzzle as complex as possible.

General Concepts
Possible Cube Combination Brainstorm

Develop a Solution
2 isometric flipbooks of possible solutions
Justification for chosen solution
Multi View Sketches of Each Piece
CAD drawings of my partners cube
Cube Quality Statistics
Review of Partners Drawings By Me
Review of My Drawings by Partner
Video of Puzzle Cube Solution

Reasoning
I chose this cube design
because my others did not meet
the criteria and constraints
given, meanwhile this met all.

My Partners Cube from CAD

Construct and
Test Prototype
Image of Me and My Cube
Isometric Perspective Images of Each of My
Pieces

Evaluate Solution
Prototype Testing Results and Statistical Analysis

Person

Attempt 1

Attempt 2

Attempt 3

Heather Ippoliti

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Derek Stevenson

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Ana Stevenson

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James Bowen

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