Cube Reflection

CUBE REFLECTION

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It is important to model, so that you wont make any mistakes while building/fabricating the product. If you mess up the product, it'll cost time and money to start over, and so employers will fire you for wasting time, or your business will fail.

I like my puzzle because it is hard yet solvable, so it presents a challenge to everyone that tries it, so it is a good product to build.

If I could change one thing about my cube, it would be that it is not perfectly aligned on all sides. Right now, it has uneven sides that make it look ugly, and so its function is spot-on, but its form is off. 

I timed five people: Sasha, Amijot, Andrew, Mom, and Dad. Their times were:

Sasha: 15

Amijot: 12:04

Andrew:14:46

Mom: 17

Dad: 7:21

Here is a histogram:

New cube

CUBE PROJECT

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These are the five pieces of my NEW puzzle cube. Below is my cake layer

^This was my final design. I chose it because it was the only one that fit the criteria, with exactly 5 parts, and 4-6 blocks in each part. 

This one, unfortunately, had six parts, even though they interlocked.

This one was okay, but the lone two-block orange in the corner disqualified it.

Here is my multiview sketch.

Here is my partner's puzzle part

Cubes

It is not normally distributed, because there are huge disparities between cube sizes, with many not even being 0.75 inch. 

Sling Machine

This is Ganesh and my fling machine. It blew the cotton ball into two bits, and the farthest bit went 35 inches. It is a pipe cleaner run through a straw, and bent at the ends. There was some foil at the end before. Earlier models could fling the cotton farther, but the materials were weak so the slingshot fell apart.

If I could alter the design, I would first use something other than the pipe cleaner to provide support for the rubber band, because the pipe cleaner bent a lot. If i could, i would just use solid poles and attach them to the desk and forego the straw as a whole. I should also learn how to actually use a slingshot. :D Our team is impeccable, so no change there. I feel other teams sufficiently solved the problem.

Unit Conversion Review

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This project was really, REALLY fun. We had so much freedom to do as we pleased and weren't restricted by over-serious attitudes like in other classes. So we had a lot of fun doing this "MLG Theme" with the "XxX" and other stuff. We also learned a lot from the presentations like the video done by Sasha and the "Communist" theme done by Alvin. We memorized unit conversions, formulas, and unit prefixes. We also flashed back to middle school with that horrendous song. This project was DEFINITELY worth it.

Our project would have had more gifs of two frogs, but it made the presentation flicker so much, we would have given some one epilepsy or a seizure in a dark room. I also want to commend Austyn for making the game in one night, and so we were unique, as we actually had a video game. Every other group had a simple verbal game. I regret that we didn't have candy, and none of us thought about it. But again, I loved this project.

Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18hntOteO420Kq4CsWKaSsi7MQOI8-Ge8A10e_Gg7DW8/edit?usp=sharing

My Pokemon Color Wheel and Color Scheme

This is my Pokemon Color Wheel. I used whatever colors I could find for each Pokemon game. Pokemon games have predominantly used colors to distinguish each game, so I have found Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Orange (a fake), Pokemon Red, Pokemon Purple (also fake), Pokemon Blue, and Pocket Monsters Green (a Japan-only release). The orange-yellow is a 1991 McLaren F1 with original paint.

This is my Pokemon Color Scheme, with Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Red, Pocket Monsters Green, and Pokemon Yellow. It is a tetrad color scheme, with four colors. These are made up of two pairs of colors opposite each other on the color wheel. Blue and yellow are opposite, and green and red are opposite.

FINAL DEMO DAY PROJECT

I have chosen to improve the computers in the school by either hiring a mechanic or creating a mechanical engineering class. All details are in the PPT:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=54EC36DA530902F6!1075&authkey=!ACN8ZdmPIKlG8_E&ithint=file%2cpptx