EAGER: Fabrication and Brokering through Information Technology (FABBIT)

EARLY-cConcept探索性研究奖（EAGER）旨在研究创建基于网络的3D物理制造服务，类似于互联网上的打印，照片和其他各种数字媒体服务。这将基于低成本增材制造（AM）原型技术（例如熔融沉积成型）的组合，以及用户使用AM方法（几乎每月都在扩大范围）或传统制造工艺扩展到小批量生产的能力。交付的成果将是一个初始的服务框架和文件格式，用于基于网络的国家零件按需原型设计和制造服务，该服务将建立在一个基于网络的平台上，使新手和专业人士能够在3D模型的设计上进行合作-这涉及共享，审查和修改机械和电子制造性的设计。研究人员将利用现代Web开发框架，例如，Ruby on Rails或Django，为“公共”设计和制造建立这个网络平台的原型。这些可交付成果将以提供普遍可访问性和易用性的具体目标进行开发。这种基于网络的制造服务的社会目标是释放学生，业余爱好者和发明家的创造力，从而在各种消费领域推出新的初创企业。经济目标是为经验丰富的设计师和新一代3D艺术家和发明家创建虚拟市场，从而为新的国家先进制造伙伴关系（AMP）计划做出贡献。由此产生的发展，这种基于网络的制造服务将提供一个合作的工程环境，适合教育和专业的使用和要求。 一个普遍可访问的设计环境可以作为一个数字教室来实现，为工程、机器人、医疗、能源和各种消费产品和服务领域的教育工作者提供一个基于网络的协作教育工具。

This EArly-cConcept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award is to investigate the creation of a web-based, 3D physical manufacturing service, analogous to the print, photo, and a wide range of other digital media services that are available on teh Internet. This will be based upon a combination of low-cost additive manufacturing (AM) prototyping techniques (e.g. fused deposition modeling) and the ability for users to scale up to small volume productions using either AM methods (which are expanding in scope almost monthly) or traditional manufacturing processes. The deliverables will be an initial service framework and file-format for a web-based national parts-on-demand prototyping and manufacturing service that will be built on a web-based platform that enables both novices and professionals to collaborate on the design of 3D models - this involves sharing, reviewing, and revising designs for mechanical and electronic manufacturability. The investigators will leverage modern web development frameworks e.g., Ruby on Rails or Django, to prototype this web platform for "communal" design and manufacturing. These deliverables will be developed with the specific objectives of providing universal accessibility and ease of use.The societal goal of this web-based manufacturing service is to unleash the creativity of students, hobbyists, and inventors with the consequent launch of new start-ups in a wide variety of consumer sectors. The economic goal is to create virtual marketplace for both experienced designers and a new generation and community of 3D-artists and inventors thus making a contribution to the new national Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) initiative. The resultant development of this web-based manufacturing service would provide a collaborative engineering environment suited to both educational and professional usage and requirements. A universally accessible design environment could be implemented as a digital classroom, providing a collaborative web-based educational tool to educators in engineering, robotics, medical, energy, and a wide range of consumer products and services.