Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Puzzle cube

To start with I had decided in my brainstorm that I have to create some sort of interlocking piece. I thought to myself, and decided that I would make two designs, one with and one without.

So this became my design with interlocking. You can see how this one has more interlocking pieces and is more dependent on each other liked the green piece and the orange piece.



























And this is the one without. As you can see, theses pieces are pretty much just disjoint a little and and each piece is much more independent. An example is the orange piece and how it is basically just two rows of orange blocks.




















This is the Isometric sketch where we get to see a more 3d perspective of the parts. I attempted to make them more cohesive by putting pieces next to each other which became a little hard to understand. You may also recognize that there are multiple scratched out areas, and these are just because the drawings were not drawn properly which was a fault on my side. I feel that if I had been more cautious, The iso sketch would have been easily identifiable
At this point I had decided which piece I wanted to build. I had decided the Interlocking one!! I chose this one because in the scheme of all things, the inter-lockable one would be much better to make because that way, the cube doesn't just fall apart. There is a chance that this may not happen in the other design also, but I wanted to confirm that this will stay together, so I chose the inter-lockable one
This is the partner piece that I built from my good friend Jake, I found how this piece was pretty easy to make and I realized that this should be a standard I follow. 





These are the parts I made on inventor. I found this quite difficult at first , but then making the pieces was a breeze! I expected it to be so much harder, but this ended up being my most favorite part of the entire project!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Cube Quality Control

To accomplish our assignment/ job we have to make sure that our equipment is as quality as it can be.  To do this we have to use our dial caliper to measure out the length of our cubes. Down below, I have all my values

[ ] Cube 1-.764
[ ] Cube 2-0.76
[ ] Cube 3-0.756
[ ] 4-0.77
[ ] 5-0.748
[ ] 6-0.752
[ ] 7- 0.74
[ ] 8- 0.74 6
[ ] 9- 0.737
[ ] 10-  0.759
[ ] 11- 0. 75 4
[ ] 12- 0. 772
[ ] 13- 0 .7 46
[ ] 14- 0. 758
[ ] 15- 0.748
[ ] 16- 0 .7 61
[ ] 17-0.758
[ ] 18-0.77
[ ] 19-0.762
[ ] 20-0.734
[ ] 21-0.742
[ ] 22-0.744
[ ] 23-0.75
[ ] 24-0.732
[ ] 25-0.721
[ ] 26-0.736
[ ] 27-0.744
 My data seems to be not too distributed and very similar. I say this because every single cube falls among the 0.7