Reflection of Cubical Journey

MY CUBE:

It is important to note that the pieces did not fit as perfectly as i had envisioned. There was even two who I i had to sand down significantly to assure they interlocked properly.

Let us now take a look at the print cad drawings:

Using Inventor to make these was interesting. 

I asked seven people to solve my puzzle, timing how long they took. Two solved it roughly at the 40 minute mark while the rest gave up and asked me to show them how it the puzzle pieces went. This was a lot of fun, given rough guidelines and materials then being allowed to build something of own own design. At the moment this is all Ms. Leppla asked to be included in the post. I'll update later as needed. 

Hold up! Update haha Alvin solved my puzzle in 2:46 seconds.

Progress so far

To begin this blog post....*rains of sparkles* PUZZLE DESIGN PROCESS. Above is the set criteria for this project.
My two cake layer designs:

I do apologize for my 4 year old coloring skills haha. After consulting beloved colleagues (Luv ya Ben and Sasha!) I chose to complete this project using the second design, the crayon pink, orange, red, aqua, and blue cube. Both layouts fit the criteria but the second design included interlocking pieces. 

Shown above are the pieces to be, made out of the cubes provided by Ms. Leppla. Shout out to her too for offering her class to us today, the first day of finals and offering to help in any way we might need :)

Sasha helped give me feed back by taking time to assemble my puzzle. 

 And these are the isometric sketches of my puzzle pieces. 

I would like to call this my Inventor blueprint. 

At the moment, January 21 2015, 8:38 pacific time this is my notable progress thus far. To Inventor!

I'm Back!! (it 9:31 pacific time)

My Inventor puzzle pieces: 

Well, that was fun. I'm starting to feel more comfortable with Inventor...let's hope I don't jinx it. 

Statistics and Quality

Before break we took the measurements of 27 blocks of wood. We positioned the blocks so that the caliper measured alongside the grain. The numbers were to be as precise as to the thousandth of an inch. Taking the data we then used excel to complete a histogram.  My data does appear to be evenly distributed because the average is present and the outliers as well.