rubiks twist a reverse engineering of my favorite physical object
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Rubiks Twist
A Reverse Engineering of My Favorite Physical Object
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The Puzzle
• The Rubiks Twist suffers from looseness and rattling after only days of use.
• On a secondary note, the colors do not match up when completed, though this may be impossible, other than the patterns which currently occur on two sides of the completed ball.
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Design Matrix
1 = Worst Rank
5 = Best Rank
Time Difficulty Probability to make a difference
Total Score
Tighten Springs
3 4 5 12
Rearrange Colors
5 4 2 11
Both mentioned
above
4 3 4 11
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Design Brief
• Client– Rubiks
• Target– Puzzle Loving Kids
• Problem Statement– To redesign the spring holding the Rubiks Twist pieces together
to be tighter, so to prevent looseness due to use.• Design Statement
– Design, test, manufacture, and mass produce a tighter Rubiks Twist.
• Constraints– All other pieces must remain the same size– Must not add any new pieces– Must still be able to rotate puzzle with relative ease
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Before the Redesign
• The grey triangles seen in the full object are exact replicas of the black one, except for color. The same goes for the plates, where blue is shown above.
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After the Redesign (Spring)
15 Revolutions
18 Revolutions
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Structural Analysis (Spring)