The innovation station : a 3D printing vending machine for UT Austin students
The innovation station : a 3D printing vending machine for UT Austin students
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创新站：为 UT Austin 学生提供的 3D 打印自动售货机
DOI：
10.15781/t2z616
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
C. Seepersad
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作者：
Joshua Kuhn;Matthew Green;Sanjai Bashyam;C. Seepersad
创新站旨在在公共空间安全地提供按需、支持网络的 3D 打印。总体目标是降低大学 3D 打印的门槛，促进创新和创造力，并激励未来的工程师。要实现这一功能，需要硬件和软件创新。从硬件方面来看，我们发明了一种自动从 3D 打印机中取出零件并将其放入垃圾箱的流程，用户无需直接访问 3D 打印机即可从中取回它们。从软件方面来说，我们与 UT Austin 的教师创新中心 (FIC) 合作创建了一个门户网站，允许学生远程上传零件并访问创建零件的详细说明。它还允许管理员远程管理队列并启动构建。硬件和软件创新共同实现了连续打印多个作业，无需用户干预和远程取消作业。整个空间站的计划，包括硬件和软件，都旨在开源，在新地点重建空间站的启动成本不到 4,000 美元。
The Innovation Station is designed to provide on-demand, web-enabled 3D printing securely in a public space. The overarching goal is to lower the barriers to 3D printing at a university, to facilitate innovation and creativity, and to inspire future engineers. Both hardware and software innovations were required to realize this capability. From the hardware side, we invented a process to automatically remove parts from the 3D printer and sweep them into a bin from which users can retrieve them without directly accessing the 3D printer. From the software side, in partnership with the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) at UT Austin, we created a web portal that allows students to upload parts remotely and access detailed directions for creating parts. It also allows administrators to remotely manage the queue and initiate builds. Together, the hardware and the software innovations enable printing multiple jobs continuously without user intervention and remote cancellation of jobs. Plans for the entire station, both hardware and software, are intended to be open source, with a startup cost of less than $4,000 for recreating the station at a new location.