# Custom Fabrication Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2021 · $27,434

## Abstract

The Custom Fabrication Module provides our Participating Faculty and their laboratory staff with 
the resources and equipment necessary to design and build custom laboratory devices. Such custom 
devices, tailored to the particular needs of each experiment, can increase efficiency in existing 
experiments and open up possibilities for new experiments that would not be possible with 
commercially available devices. Vision research projects in any domain can benefit from these 
resources. The Custom Fabrication Module also provides training in the design and fabrication 
methods available to users, which can be critical in breaking down barriers of imagination as to 
what can be achieved with custom devices. In addition, the module provides guidance for users as 
they move through the stages of design, prototyping, and manufacturing of custom equipment. The 
goal is to enable users to rapidly move from concept to execution, and then allow them 
to implement their devices in an experimental setting and then revise as needed.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10168543
- **Project number:** 5P30EY008098-33
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** MATTHEW A SMITH
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $27,434
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10168543

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10168543, Custom Fabrication Core (5P30EY008098-33). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10168543. Licensed CC0.

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