Contribution: The NEWTON fabrication laboratory (Fab Lab) Education Initiative assesses the effectiveness of Fab Lab-based learning on K-12 students' attitude toward science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM). It considers two aspects: 1) motivation affective state 2) observations perception learning. Background: Labs are described as small workshops equipped with a set computer-controlled tools (e.g., 3-D printers) that offer personalized digital fabrication. They have...

RAISING STUDENTS' INTEREST IN STEM EDUCATION VIA REMOTE DIGITAL FABRICATION: AN IRISH PRIMARY SCHOOL CASE STUDY

Recently, fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs) have been shown to a great impact on learners' academic and personal progress. As result, an increasing effort is being put integrate Fab Labs into schools' curricula. Yet, owing the high cost of setting up maintaining as well lack sufficient funding for most schools universities, only limited number institutions can afford them. In this article, we propose new concept called Fabrication-as-a-Service (FaaS) that uses Internet Things democratize...

Cloud and IoT technologies have the potential to support applica- tions that are not strictly limited technical fields. This paper shows how digital fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs) can leverage cloud enable resource sharing provide remote access distributed expensive resources over internet. We call this new concept Fabrication as a Service (FaaS), since each is exposed internet web ser- vice through REST APIs. The platform presented in part of NEWTON Horizon 2020 technology-enhanced...

Low-cost, high-performance embedded devices are proliferating and a plethora of new platforms available on the market. Some them either have GPUs or possibility to be connected external Machine Learning (ML) algorithm hardware accelerators. These enhanced features enable applications in which AI-powered smart objects can effectively pervasively run real-time distributed ML algorithms, shifting part raw data analysis processing from cloud edge device itself. In such context, Artificial...

Water is a major preoccupation for our generation since it crucial in keeping healthy ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. The state of aquatic systems water bodies needs to be continuously monitored make informed decisions trigger sanitation when necessary. However, observing tracking the evolution many without disturbing polluting biotopes expensive, not scalable, thus, infeasible. This article presents way sustainable measurements using new low-cost, open-source, autonomous monitoring...

Fabrication-as-a-Service (FaaS) represents a method and set of innovative solutions for the next generation fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs). It leverages cloud IoT technologies to enable wide learning community have remote access these labs' computer-controlled tools equipment over Internet. This paper introduces FaaS in context Fab Lab challenges describes instantiation NEWTON Labs, part an European Horizon 2020 project. The Labs architecture is described details with major focus on...

In this paper, we present the design of a baseband System-On-Chip for tracking applications in medical environment based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard which can be used to track patient location hospitals. It utilizes an ARM Cortex-M1 soft-core, 16 kb SRAM and bus architecture AHB-Lite specification. The MAC primitives are implemented Flash-ROM 32 kb. hardware verification was done Actel M1AFS1500 130 nm LVCMOS FPGA. total logic usage FPGA 81 % (31142 core cells). power consumption...

DESIGNING, TESTING AND ADAPTING TO CREATE A DISTRIBUTED LEARNING PROGRAM IN OPEN DESIGN DIGITAL FABRICATION

Fabrication as a Service (FaaS) is new concept developed within the framework of NEWTON Horizon 2020 project. It aimed at empowering digital fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs) by providing hardware and software wrappers to expose numerically-controlled expensive equipment web services. More specifically, FaaS leverages cloud IoT technologies enable wide learning community have remote access these labs’ computer-controlled tools over Internet. In such context, machines can be seen networked...

Two multistage low noise amplifiers are presented. Supply voltages 0.4 V and 1.2 V, respectively, with bias currents of 4.4 mA 2.09 mA. Both designs suitable for low-power applications in the 2.4 GHz band. Circuits have been implemented simulated using a UMC 130 nm RF-CMOS process. The provide, 14.4 dB power gain, figure NF <2.2 1-dB compression point −19.9 dBm, whereas dissipating 1.77 mW 12.7 <1.59, −15.45 dBm 2.5 dissipation. Such performance makes these wireless sensor network such as ZigBee.

In this paper, we present the design of a cryptographic core compliant with IEEE 802.15.4 standard and based on FPGA. We have addressed several security problems that remain yet problematic concerning implementation suites access control list (ACL). The consists three components: compact AES-CCM architecture, content-addressable memory (CAM) implements an (ACL) modular exponentiation unit Montgomery arithmetic. can be used to perform key agreement variant Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (DHKE)....

NEWTON FAB LAB INITIATIVE: ATTRACTING K-12 EUROPEAN STUDENTS TO STEM EDUCATION THROUGH CURRICULUM-BASED LABS

The speed of high-radix digit-recurrence dividers is mainly determined by the hardware complexity quotient-digit selection function. In this paper we present a scheme that combines area efficiency bundled data with data-dependent computation time. function very simple and may be implemented using fast adder This speculates result digit and, when speculation incorrect, correction quotient residual must performed. When satisfies some constraints it also possible to switch higher radix,...

An architecture for a low-cost, low-complexity digital transceiver is presented in this article. The proposed targets the IEEE 802.15.4 standard short-range wireless personal area networks and has been implemented as synthesisable VHDL register transfer level description. system evaluated tested using Xilinx 90 nm Virtex-4 field-programmable gate array target technology. Bit error rate (BER) vector magnitude (EVM) have used figures of merit modem performance. Simulations show that...

The speed of a divider based on digit-recurrence algorithm depends mainly the latency quotient digit generation function. In this paper we present an analytical approach that extends theory developed for standard SRT division and permits us to implement schemes where simpler function speculates digit. This leads units with shorter cycle time variable since speculation error may be produced post-correction necessary. We have applied our design radix-16 speculative double precision floating...