Cloud and IoT technologies have the potential to support applica- tions that are not strictly limited to technical fields. This paper shows how digital fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs) can leverage cloud technologies to enable resource sharing and provide remote access to distributed expensive fabrication resources over the internet. We call this new concept Fabrication as a Service (FaaS), since each resource is exposed to the internet as a web ser- vice through REST APIs. The cloud platform presented in this paper is part of the NEWTON Horizon 2020 technology-enhanced learning project. The NEWTON Fab Labs architecture is described in detail, from system concep- tion and simulation to system cloud deployment and testing in NEWTON project small and large-scale pilots for teaching and learning STEM subjects.

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云平台的设计，仿真和测试，用于共享教育的数字制造资源

云和物联网技术具有支持不严格限于技术领域的应用的潜力。本文展示了数字制造实验室（Fab Labs）如何利用云技术来实现资源共享并通过Internet提供对分布式昂贵制造资源的远程访问。我们将这个新概念称为“制造即服务”（FaaS），因为每种资源都通过REST API作为Web服务公开给Internet。本文介绍的云平台是NEWTON Horizo​​n 2020技术增强学习项目的一部分。详细介绍了NEWTON Fab Labs的体系结构，从系统概念和仿真到NEWTON项目小型和大型试点的系统云部署和测试，以教授和学习STEM主题。