Puzzle Cube

I had two puzzle designs and i decided to use the first one because i found it to be more challenging. In addition to being challenging the second one actually had 6 pieces and i had to scratch the idea. The latest puzzle design consists of 5 pieces and all the pieces consists more than 4 blocks and less or equal to 6 blocks. At the moment i have the final  design and i have CADed all of the parts. The only thing remaining is the assembly which has already been done with math blocks provided in the classroom.

Cube Portfolio

The Cube project is one project i will remember for a long time. This product really changed the way i think of how products are designed. One things i noticed is that CADing the parts is probably the most important step to take before physically designing the cube. CADing the parts allowed me to catch a big mistake before making a prototype. The mistake was that i had six cube parts when the constraints said i can only have five. This was an easy fix, but it did save a lot of hassle that may have occurred in the long term.

Cube made by math blocks

Cake layer 1

Cake layer 2

Isometric Part Drawings

CAD design of all cube parts. 

Cube analysis

As you can see with all the data made above with excel, each cube is not the same. The manufactures gave a percentage of blocks that are accurate. I had to change my blocks a couple of times since i encountered block over 0.7 inches like 0.8 and even 0.9. the average, median, mode, and range was obtained in excel, but every time i tried the calculation for standard deviation the calculation would lead to 0. Overall the cube are all around 0.7 and will fit for the cube puzzle.