Reverse engineering: Automblox

Visual:

The designers of this car tried to mimic the look of a race car. There are certain aspects of this care that are added to show the complete design of a car. The under body gray pieces show the different curves of a car. All of the objects are proportional to the look of a real life car

Functional Analysis:

1. The purpose of this object is to allow children a lot of fun with a toy. It is also to mimic an actual car. 

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3. A)On the axle there are little ridges on the end that when the wheel is put on it all the way the ridges block the wheel from falling off. 

    B)Yes my hypothesis was right. 

    C)The connectors allow each of the pieces to click into the other well enough so that they can be sturdy when put together and need a certain amount of force to pull apart.

    D)Yes my hypothesis was correct.

    E)The raised ridge patter allow the connectors to come apart from the car. 

    F)The wheels are wrapped in rubber allowing for traction. The edges on almost everything are rounded so that kids don't hurt themselves. 

4)Inputs: Force

Output:the car will move or you can pull the car apart

Structrual:

 1. The point of revese engineering is to look at every aspect of the product at hand. It doesn't mean destroying the product. It means looking more in depth into why certain things were done.

 2. If I were to improve the Automblox I would probably make the toy more interchangeable. So that kids can experiment with different kinds of car customizations. 

Form follows function.

This was a very hard topic to work with. It was hard to not try to do a whole "product improvement" thing but instead find something that can WORK BETTER and still look astetically pleasing. I tried to think of items that I have issues with. An object that constantly causes issues in my daily life. I cooked over the weekend and went to go and grab the pot handle and burnt my hand cause it was so hot. So the idea I came up with was a removable handle so that once you put the pot on the stove you can take the handle off to keep it from heating up. 

AutomoBlox

This is how far I got. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how everything was created. It was a really good experience. The most challenging part was trying to figure out the star of the passenger base. The most fun was seeing all the picture and then the extrusion come together.