Cube Puzzle Reflection Post

This project really showed why it is so important to go through every step of the design process. I found out that in order to not make a mistake while building the actual product you have to have a very detailed design. This help ensure that the product will be complete the first time you do it. Like when ever you are building something they say, "Measure twice, cut once." it the same with designing, "design for weeks, build once."

When I had originally designed my puzzle I only used the constraints between edges. I tended to have a constraint on every different axis of each of the different pieces. Then because I didn't really know how to make a presentation file I removed all the constraints because I thought that this stopped me from moving each piece individually. So by the end of the project I didn't have any constraints on my assembly file.

When people say that they used the design process to solve the problem at hand, in layman's terms, it means that they spent a good deal of time trying to solve this project before creating a solution. In technical terms it means that the person first found out what the problem was, then brainstormed possible solutions, next started to develop their solution by first hand drawing and the by computer designing it, finally they created this solution that they designed and let other provide feedback for them to use to improve on.

This puzzle was a way of us to all learn how much the design process helps when creating a product. It was a really fun project especially because the more difficult you tried to make the puzzle the harder it was to design.

Mid Puzzle Design Challenge

Part possibility brainstorming:

There were a lot of possibilities but it was really fun thinking of the different shapes to be made. 

Two possible solutions:

Figuring out how to make all the blocks interlock was really difficult. Once you figure it out though it is a lot of fun. 

Cake layer #1:

Cake layer #2:

Multiview sketches for each solution:

These sketches really help you view every piece from the different sides. 

Inventor Drawings:

Inventor was a lot of fun to use. I really got to explore how much inventor could do. 

Project Solution:

Making this video was really hard but really cool once I got the hang of it. 

Cube Quality Control

My data doesn't appear to be normal because the number of the lager sized cubes seems to be a lot greater than the number of cubes around the average. It actually seems to be skewed to the left a little bit. 

Fling Machine

This was a really cool project. It was fun to learn how to use the materials we have to make something so unique. My partner and I while brainstorming we had three designs. We originally decided to make the one on the right and use that but at the end we decided to use the one on the left. I do wish that we could have had more testing time so that it would be able to be tweaked a little bit so that it would be perfect. My partner and I worked really well together because as I would put out an idea he wouldn't shoot it down but would expand on it that's why we had three ideas. It's always good to have back up plans.