Cube-like Member with Interconnecting Pegs for Spatial Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing three-dimensional objects in games and education lack effective methods to enhance sensory skills, coordination, and spatial thinking, particularly in promoting hands-on tactile experiences and spatial orientation without the need for supporting surfaces.
Innovation Solution
The use of cube-like formations with sensors, such as cameras, and interconnecting pegs or link members that allow for interaction with virtual objects, enabling hands-on tactile experiences and promoting spatial thinking through geometric combinations and digital synchronization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cube-like members are interconnected using pegs or link members without supporting surfaces, then spatial orientation and three-dimensional comprehension are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cube-like member is divided into distinct functional zones: corner regions with three bores each, edge regions with two bores each, and face centers with single bores. This segmentation allows each region to serve specific connection purposes, simplifying the overall interconnecting mechanism while maintaining spatial orientation capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The pegs and link members are designed as universal connecting elements that can interface with any bore configuration on any cube-like member. A single peg design can connect two faces, two edges, or a face and an edge, eliminating the need for multiple specialized connectors and reducing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple bores of various forms and shapes are formed in each cube, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Different bore characteristics are applied locally to different regions of the cube-like member. Corner regions have three bores arranged in a specific triangular pattern, edges have two bores in linear arrangement, and face centers have single bores. Each local region's bore configuration is optimized for its specific connection needs, allowing manufacturing processes to focus on localized precision requirements rather than uniform complexity throughout.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention utilizes bores with varying parameters (form, shape, orientation, and position) to achieve different connection functions. By changing bore parameters locally rather than using identical bores everywhere, the system achieves high adaptability while manufacturing can address each parameter variation through standardized processes applied to different locations.
3Extent of automation
If sensors such as cameras are integrated into cube-like formations, then interaction with virtual objects is enabled, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor system is merged with the cube-like member structure itself, with cameras and other sensors integrated into the cube housing rather than being separate external components. This combining approach enables digital synchronization and virtual object interaction while reducing overall system complexity compared to having standalone sensing systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated sensors serve multiple functions: tracking the physical cube's position and orientation, enabling interaction with virtual objects, and potentially providing feedback for augmented reality applications. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate sensing systems and justifies the added complexity through enhanced automation capabilities.
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AI summary
A structure for providing accessibility to knowledge skills of load bearing includes several cubes. Each cube includes bores formed through each facet of the cube that are suitable for receiving pegs or link members, and each cube includes markings in order to assist in identification of the and/or an internal cube at a center of the cube.