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!

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

We are all designers and that unites us. However, we are met with the dilemma of unit conversions and dimensional analysis. We are required to educate ourselves with this knowledge because we are required to know how to convert measurements to best fit our needs. This skill takes us as designers to a new level. This skill is unfortunately burdened with being extremely boring. That is why my group had made a power point with some engaging gifs and a mini game with unit conversion tables for our education. As a total though, we must understated that this is not something to be taken lightly. By using these standard dimensions, we not only facilitate unit conversions, but we also unite designers. These standards eliminate the ambiguity between the metric and the English system and create a bridge between these two systems. A world without these standards and an individual way for everyone would result in a different way of working for everyone. Person A would convert in one way and person B would do it in another. We would be voluntarily creating a fissure between the systems of the world.

Fling Machine

The Fling Machine itself didn't travel too far, but i felt like it could have went much farther. We designed the machine in a way that there would be good support to actually fling the ball.My partner and I worked very well, and managed to incorporate both of our ideas. An example would be how I suggested cutting the straw and putting it around the pipe cleaner, and my partner suggested putting it in as a whole. If, I could optimize my machine, I would get a new straw and corks so the the bases for the machine were stronger and had a much more solid perimeter. I don't think it is necessary for our team to improve because I think we got down the whole point of teamwork, and were able to work together really well. Given the constraints, I felt as if my team really managed to get the main goal of  the project, but I felt that if we had had more materials, we would have been able to work a lot better with the constraints imposed on us.

The Unit Conversion Presentations

The objective of this presentation was to teach everyone unit conversion concepts in a fun and engaging way. Many groups presented and all of them managed to teach the lesson well. There were many things we had to cover like dimensional analysis and significant figures. All the information was well covered, but I think we were all too similar in the way we presented. Close to every group gave a power point presentation and I felt that even my group could have done something better. We got the point across, but I felt it could have been done in a better way by me, and possibly other groups.

The color wheel is a circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between colors.
the color wheel displays the 3 primary, 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary colors.

This the Monochromactic color scheme. It is developed through adding shades of gray and black to a color to add more shades of it.

The analogous color scheme utilizes adjacent colors to create a scheme of colors 

Complementary colors use colors opposite each other. It is normally associated with a cool color and a warm color

The Triad color scheme uses 3 equally space colors on the color wheel to make a color scheme. It is often associated with a triangle

The split complementary is a variation of the complementary color scheme. It uses two adjacent colors paired with  a base color to create the color scheme. It has less tension than the complementary, but still has a high contrast.

Interviewing a designer

We saw Joshua Jenkins come into class last week and I myself felt quite privileged. This man honestly had quite a story. Mr. Jenkins told us about he did not even go to college! As a high school student right now, i seems almost catastrophic to try and imagine succeeding without a college degree. In today's society, we are met with so many dilemmas just to get to college and to think that someone hasn't really has a story of its own. If that wasn't enough, Mr. Jenkins also told us about the many ventures he's embarked on. This includes working at dropbox and now in a start up who are creating a keyboard app called GOJI. He spoke about how at places like dropbox, the environment was very playful. I found this really interesting because it seems extremely improbable to think about working somewhere the environment is so free. I was also fascinated to here the many things that he himself had done and how he came into this. I think this is the most important part of it all. He spoke about what inspired him. He said that he always looked out into the world and saw all these things that could be improved on. It is quite enthralling to think about a man who really does embody the idea of improving the world one product at a time and makes me appreciate these hard workers of the word for making it as aesthetically and efficient as it is today.