Inventor Question

My question regarding inventor: how do you fillet your design?

I used this page and this video. After reading through the page and watching the video, I realized filleting was easy. All you had to do was click on the Fillet icon on the top side bar and input your measurements, and voila, your design can be easily fillet-ed. 

Form Follows Function

Snuggies. Warm, comfy, and in a variety of colors, Snuggies seem to be perfect. However, don't be fooled. The Snuggie is a lie. With their deceptive advertisements, your $14.99 is wasted on a junk piece of cloth with no back.

...Which is why I've decided to redesign the Snuggie, with a back.

Because I was absent on Wednesday, I was unable to design CAD parts. However, given that I was redesigning a Snuggie, I doubt I would've been able to do so otherwise.
1). The Snuggie 360 is intended for all a variety of shapes and sizes with an colors to pick and choose from. 
2). It would be made just like actual snuggies, except the cloth would be stitched together at the back, along with pockets and hoods.
3). It meets the project criteria due, since the Snuggie has a major flaw in its design, and the Snuggie 360 works to fix this.
4). The Snuggie 360 is literally the Snuggie, just with minor adjustments.
5). It is similar to the Snuggie in general design, however the hood, pockets, and closed back make it unique. 
6). It could be better by using better, softer material, rather than just cotton.

Puzzle Cube Reflection

Assembled Puzzle Cube 

Here's my final completed puzzle cube.
Mean: 88.2
Median: 85
Mode: None
Standard Deviation: 67.79897
Overall my puzzle cube was relatively easy to solve, as many were able to finish it within minutes. Even though it wasn't particularly challenging, it apparently "Makes people feel good about themselves" when solved.  

Graph

It's important to model an idea before making a final prototype because without a model, you are unable to clearly see the final prototype and any adjustments it may or may not need. What I like about my puzzle is that all the pieces fit together well, and there are no pieces that are hard or impossible to fit together. One thing I would change if I could would be making my puzzle cube more challenging and not have it so easily solvable. 

Puzzle Piece Sketches

Puzzle Design Process

Brainstorm:

"Cake Layer":

Design 1

Design 2

Multi-View:

After careful consideration, I decided on Design 2. I picked this due to it being more challenging, as when I had my partner test out the two designs, Design 2 took a considerably large amount of time to assemble and was overall more difficult.

CAD Parts:

Cube Quality Control

Mean: 0.751, Median: 0.75, Mode: 0.751, Standard deviation: 0.00988

The data appears to be distributed normally, judging from the relative evenness of the graph and the closeness of the mean, median, and mode. Also, the standard deviation is a low number, meaning that the extent of deviation of the group as a whole is very little. 

Fling Machine

Our fling machine started off strong in the first few flings, but quickly lost its effectiveness as the aluminum and pipe-cleaner entwined straws became less and less sturdy. Our design, shown to the left, is a slingshot-like structure with straw and pipe-cleaners as the base, the rubber band acting as the starting trigger, and the aluminum foil serving as support for the cotton ball. My partner Katie and I worked effectively and contributed equally in this project. Given the opportunity to optimize my design, I would work on stabilizing and strengthening the structure in order to get more consistent results. We would have been more effective if we had time-managed better, as we often found ourselves short on time. Considering that a lot of teams didn't bring the materials needed, they made more simplistic designs, sometimes only using one material. I felt as though none of those designs were particularly innovative, though they were effective in terms of flinging the cotton ball far. Below is my reflection on this project.

Unit Conversion Reflection

For this project, our team brainstormed ways to make Unit Conversions "fun." Seeing as everyone was doing a powerpoint or prezi of some kind, we decided to try something different: make a movie. We researched all the information, worked to incorporate it into the script, came up with a mildly relevant plot,  and finally acting it all out. Overall i'm proud of how it turned out. Here is the final product; Measurement Man: The (MM)ovie.