Puzzle Cube Assignment Breakdown

When you have formed a group, you will need to keep on track for finishing this project. In order to do this, here are the steps and the items you will need to turn in to get graded.

Item 1> Create major pieces of your cube and draw an isometric drawing of each one of them. I recommend that each group member, (out of four) have 16 blocks, and they create no more than 5 larger pieces and they must fit together with the other group members pieces to create the larger cube. These pieces should be glued and ordered so that we have an optimal sequence to put the cube together.

Item 2> An annotated plan in your Engineering notebook. This should include descriptions of who is in your group, what your schedule is, and what are your ideas for the overall design.
Remember: This cube is a puzzle, and you will be asking other teams to solve teh puzzle. So you will present it unassembled and you will time how long it takes to put together. The cubes will be used in a contest between class hours, and the top cube from each hour will be made in 10x scale in Styrofoam.

Item 3> Isometric drawing of each piece on graph paper

Item 4> A finished Puzzle cube.

• The cube needs to fit together in a 4x4x4 configuration.
• The cube should have an attractive design on the sides--this can be drawn or a picture can be glued.
• The cube should be able to fit together.
• It should not just fall apart when you pick it up.
  

Item 5> Isometric drawings on graph paper--one for each piece.

Item 6> A table that tracks the name and time it takes each person to assemble the cube.
There should also be observations about each cube that should give some indication of why it is challenging to assemble--what are the characteristics?

Item 7> An Autodesk Inventor rendering of each piece in 3d. These pieces should be created as an assembly, and then animated to show the assembly process. Try find a way to put the design on your cube onto your AI assembly cube.

Item 8> A self-evaluation of your cube.
You should look at the quality of craftsmanship.

• Craftsmanship is made of:
• Function--it is useful and practical
  
• Aesthetic--people find it attractive and well designed
  
• Economy--there is no waste or extra parts associated with it.
  

• Make a table with two columns
• What I did well
• What I would improve.
• Comment on each element of craftsmanship