Final Project for ME 444 Toy Design: Puzzlebox

Toy Design focused on advanced CAD assemblies, teaching us to make more thoughtful design choices, build functional skeleton models, and get some manufacturing experience under our belts.

The final project of this course, as you may have guessed, was a toy!

Our group decided to make a Purdue-themed puzzle box. Check out some images below!

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This was a 5 puzzle, puzzle box. When began from the start, there is nothing but the outer box to be seen. For the first puzzle, you have to flip over the entire box to open the hidden doors that unlock 4 Purdue magnets. Using the laser cut images on each panel of the box, you can identify locations at Purdue that the magnets correlate to on the top of the box. When all 4 are placed correctly, magnetic pins lift and allow you to slide off this second puzzle. The third puzzle is a clock mechanism that, when set to the correct time (associated with the year the Boilermaker special was released), unlocks to reveal the inner part of the puzzle. The Engineering Fountain holds a cryptex-style puzzle, but is locked by 1 more puzzle, a music box. This was my contribution to this project. It was a bit of an electronic puzzle, where hidden buttons on the underside helped light up the LEDs on the top to reveal the position of switches to solve the box. When the center button is pressed in a solved state, it would play the Purdue Fight Song. The final puzzle was solved by finishing the hint _________, Hammer Down!. When Boiler Up was spelled out, this final puzzle was unlocked to reveal the train prize toy.

As the semester wrapped up, we won

Best Innovation and People’s Choice Awards!

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