SBIR Phase I: Computer Aided Design Toolkit for Desktop Digital Fabrication of Circuits on Paper

SBIR 第一阶段：用于纸上电路桌面数字制造的计算机辅助设计工具包

• 批准号: 2110125
• 负责人: Jie Qi
• 金额: $ 25.59万
• 依托单位: CHIBITRONICS INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Computer; Aided; Design

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project is to increase the diversity of people engaging in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by broadening the creative and expressive possibilities at the intersection of craft and circuit design. The project hypothesizes that by creating design and digital fabrication tools that leverage familiar paper craft practices and the intrinsic motivational value the arts, circuit design and fabrication can be made accessible to those who are novices to circuit design and fabrication. Research shows that this approach is especially successful for reaching those who otherwise may not participate in STEM, especially underrepresented minorities, girls and women. By developing software to support digital circuit design and fabrication, this project enables users to easily share and build off of digital design templates, expanding the reach of beginner-friendly starter projects and creating a community of learners who can co-create and co-teach. Further, by enabling creators to connect circuit design to consumer-friendly digital fabrication technologies like desktop craft cutters, we will bring the digital manufacturing of electronics out of traditionally technical environments and into entirely new and more mainstream audiences.The technical innovation is the development of novel electrical design software that greatly reduces the complexity of existing electronics computer aided design tools, making the tool accessible to novice users such as educators, hobbyists and artists. This will be done through the elimination of schematic abstractions along with powerful simulation capabilities uniquely catered for expressive and artistic technological creations. By combining beginner-appropriate electronic footprints with a drawing interface for sketching traces, users will be able to represent their designs exactly as they would appear when built. By incorporating electrical rule checks along with simulation of circuit behavior, the software will allow users to iterate on their designs with confidence before they invest time in fabricating. To address these challenges, the design of the software and accompanying physical toolkit will be designed iteratively and in close partnership with K-12 educators and hobby crafters through a series of user studies to ensure that the intended audience who have never used electronic design software before can manufacture their designs easily while being able to express their diverse interests.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第1阶段项目的更广泛影响是通过扩大工艺与巡回设计交集的创造性和表现力，来增加从事科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的多样性。 该项目假设，通过创建设计和数字制造工具，可以利用熟悉的纸制作实践以及固有的动机价值，而艺术，电路设计和制造可以使那些是电路设计和制造的新手来访问。 研究表明，这种方法特别成功地吸引了那些可能不参加STEM的人，尤其是代表性不足的少数民族，女孩和妇女。通过开发支持数字电路设计和制造的软件，该项目使用户可以轻松地共享和构建数字设计模板，扩大对初学者友好的入门项目的影响范围，并创建一个可以共同创建和共同教学的学习者社区。此外，通过使创作者能够将电路设计与桌面剪刀等对消费者友好的数字制造技术（例如桌面刀具）连接起来，我们将将电子设备的数字制造从传统的技术环境中带出来，并成为全新的，更具新型和更主流的受众群体。技术创新是技术创新的开发，可大大降低现有的Electrical and Expellike and Expelligy Election工具，使工具成为一种工具，使工具逐渐成为一种工具，该工具既可以逐步又有工具，从而使工具逐渐成为工具的复杂性。艺术家。 这将通过消除原理图抽象以及强大的模拟功能来实现，从而独特地迎合表现力和艺术技术创造。 通过将适合初学者的电子足迹与用于素描轨迹的绘图接口相结合，用户将能够像构建时完全表现出其设计。 通过合并电气规则检查以及对电路行为的模拟，该软件将允许用户在投入时间进行制造时间之前充满信心地迭代设计。为了应对这些挑战，该软件的设计和随附的身体工具包将经过迭代设计，并通过一系列用户研究与K-12教育者和业余爱好者保持密切合作，以确保从未使用过电子设计软件的预期受众可以轻松地制造他们的设计，同时可以通过表达自己的多元化奖励，以表达自己的Internutional Internation nsf nsf nsf的知识，并依靠NSF的构建范围。更广泛的影响审查标准。