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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge

This document summarizes Marion Andrew Fondevilla's puzzle cube design challenge project. It includes an autobiography about Marion, the design brief from Fine Office Furniture requesting a puzzle made from scrap wood cubes, Marion's brainstorming and design process documentation, and the final puzzle prototype. Feedback from a classmate noted the puzzle was very difficult to solve without help and suggested improvements to the surface finishing and painting.

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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge

This document summarizes Marion Andrew Fondevilla's puzzle cube design challenge project. It includes an autobiography about Marion, the design brief from Fine Office Furniture requesting a puzzle made from scrap wood cubes, Marion's brainstorming and design process documentation, and the final puzzle prototype. Feedback from a classmate noted the puzzle was very difficult to solve without help and suggested improvements to the surface finishing and painting.

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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge

Marion Andrew Fondevilla


IED 2nd Period

Autobiography

My name is Marion Andrew Oliva Fondevilla and I was born on the 8th of November, 1998 in Manila,
Philippines. My parents are Andrew Fondevilla, a civil engineer and my mother, Amelia Fondevilla, a doctor of
medicine. I have four siblings, three brothers, Mark, Michael, Matthew and one sister, Monica and I am the
youngest. There are lots of stuffs that I enjoy such as playing sports, bonding with my best friends, doing crazy
stuffs and I actually enjoy watching animes. Sometimes, it bothers me why are we living if were just going to die
at the end. For me life is finding your reason to live and be a reason for someone to live theirs. Right now my
goal is to be as an engineer just like my father and make them proud.

Puzzle Design Challenge Brief


Client

Fine Office Furniture, Inc.

Target Consumer

Ages: High school aged

Designer

_____________________________________

Problem Statement
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap
hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive,
and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of profit.

Design Statement
Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw
material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test,
document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood
cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to high school
students.

Criteria
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 hardwood cubes.
1. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
2. Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes
that are permanently attached to each other.
3. No two puzzle parts can be the same.
4. The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 cube.
5. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
6. The puzzle should require high school students an average of _5mins_____ minutes/seconds
to solve. (Fill in your target solution time.)

Submittal
View the Portfolio presentation. Create a project portfolio to include the following:
Design Process Description. Summarize your work during each step of the design process.
Include documentation (written work, sketches, CAD drawings, images, etc.) to support
your discussion. Your documentation must include the following information located in the
appropriate Design Process step:
o Title page
o Brief autobiography and your picture
o Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
o Brainstorming Possible Part Combinations (Activity 4.1a Puzzle Part Combinations)
o Isometric sketches of two possible complete Puzzle Cube designs
o Justification of your chosen Puzzle Cube design solution
o Multi-view sketch, fully dimensioned of each of the five puzzle parts in your chosen
design (Activity 4.1b Graphical Modeling)
o CAD drawing(s) displaying a fully dimensioned multi-view of each puzzle part and
two different isometric views of the assembled puzzle.
o Drawing review comments from a classmate.
o Image(s) of your building process and puzzle prototype.
o Physical model of your puzzle.
o Statistics related to the solution time of your puzzle as required above.
o A written summary of your puzzle test results and a discussion of the validity of your
design. Does your design meet the design criteria? Does your design provide an
appropriate degree of challenge to high school students (as stated in the design
statement)?
o A discussion of possible changes to your puzzle cube that would improve the
design.

Puzzle Part Combinations

Graphical Modeling

Auto CAD

Isometric View

Puzzle Prototype

Puzzle Test Results

By: Shiv Bhalla

Marions puzzle cube feed back

My thoughts,
Thought that Marions puzzle cube was impossibly hard. The only way to solve it
was for him to show me himself. Only problem I had was that it looked poorly
colored/painted.

Optimization,
To make the cube better Marion could use sandpaper to smooth the surface and
then paint it a good nice coat of one color.

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