OpenFlexure

OpenFlexure Microscope - OpenFlexure The OpenFlexure project is an open-source initiative focused on development of 3D printed, laboratory-grade digital microscopes and positioning stages, making high-quality microscopy accessible to all...

Our revamped OpenFlexure website is live! 🎉

openflexure.org

Big thanks to PenDigital Ltd for the redesign 🙌

Check out our new pages about our community, funding, and how the microscope is built and used.

#OpemFlexure #OpenSource #website

Our first Hackathon! And to continue our dedication to reliability, documentation and testing, it's all about quality!

More details can be found on our forum at openflexure.discourse.group/t/join-us-fo...

We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the Biomanufacturing Group at ICGEB for winning a best exhibit prize at Maker Faire Trieste yesterday! 🏆 Their award-winning exhibit featured a number of OpenFlexure Microscopes, and aimed at help make biology accessible to everyone. 🔬

Took my OpenFlexure Microscope to a demo today. I decided to walk. It's nice to have a project portable enough you can carry it 4km along the Bath Skyline.
#Portability #Microscopy #Bath
@openflexure.bsky.social

Humanitarian Technology Trust The Humanitarian Technology Trust is focused on advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing. We believe that empowering local manufacturers is the best way to ensure life...

The Humanitarian Technology Trust launches today, and they're supporting our work on the OpenFlexure Microscope!

Microscopy saves lives, but access remains a barrier in much of the world. HTT’s first mission: help scale up our open-source microscope for global impact.

httrust.org/2025/05/08/H...

We are delighted to be featured in this excellent guide on design for 3D printing.

Thx Babak @babakmalekian.bsky.social for making a movie about our DYI IR LED #roots #phenotyping devices, more to come soon @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #Raspberrypi #openflexure @openflexure.bsky.social

Packed audience hall listening to presentation

Amazing talk by @openflexure.bsky.social at #fosdem2025. If you don't know these guys, check them out today. openflexure.org/projects/mic...

Ogres are like OpenFlexure Microscopes—they have layers! And today, you can see them being printed live at FOSDEM by our friends at Prusa Research! 🔬✨

Come say hi to us in Hall H, see the magic happen, and let’s celebrate open-source collaboration at its best! 🚀

#FOSDEM2025 #OpenSource #3DPrinting

We are having a blast at #FOSDEM, showcasing the OpenFlexure Microscopes and chatting with loads of other open-source enthusiasts!!

Come and see us in Hall H to get a demo of our microscope, and come along to our talk tomorrow at 15:20 CET in H.1309 (Van Rijn)!

#OpenSource

The OpenFlexure stand at #FOSDEM is buzzing. Come see us in building H.

@openflexure.bsky.social

There is an English version!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZOx...

Awesome work! I love it.

Every customised OpenFlexure Microscope makes us happy! This is the power of open source!

A photo showing a water bottle, 3D printer filament made from water bottles, and a digital microscope made from this filament.

An OpenFlexure Microscope in a school in Kenya

We would love to have more microscopes in Kenya.

In the past an organisation called TechForTrade built a version of our microscopes on the university of Nairobi campus from recycled plastic bottles.

We'll send you a DM

OpenFlexure Microscopes are more available than ever. It is really exciting to see so many businesses helping our community buy microscopes.

@labcrafter.co.uk have a new Hi-Res upgrade kit.

Fieldworkers in Japan are also selling a kit!

The true power of Open Hardware is that anyone can sell it.

An OpenFlexure Microscope wearing a Santa hat.

Merry Christmas from the OpenFlexure Project.

Did Santa get anyone a microscope? 🔬🎅🎁

Official launch of the OpenFlexure vendors page This year the Open Science Shop community has been collaborating with the OpenFlexure team with the goal of building a global network of OpenFlexure microscope kit vendors. We have been organizing mon...

So excited to see that @openflexure.bsky.social now has a vendors page up and running - this is a huge step forward for those seeking to create a distributed manufacturing ecosystem for open source scientific hardware! www.openscienceshop.org/vendor-page-...

🚨REALLY COOL PAPER ALERT!🚨

It is incredible to see the work that is happening around the world with our open source designs.
Well done Solomon and @iamchagas.bsky.social

Some exciting microscope building happening in UCL!

See original on twitter:
x.com/BIIG_UCL/sta...

@uclofficial.bsky.social
🔬 #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenHardware

Assembly photo of an OpenFlexure Microscope (video screenshot) from a Wambian bio-imaging workshop in Dakar.

Assembly photo of an OpenFlexure Microscope (video screenshot) from a Wambian bio-imaging workshop in Dakar.

Map of the world with countries where we know OpenFlexure has been built and/or used coloured in pink. Coloured countries: UK, USA, Tanzania, China, Antarctica, Russia, Australia, Ireland, Argentina, Kenya, India, Turkey, Germany, Chile, Cameroon, Singapore, The Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, Philippines, Norway, Panama, Uganda, Taiwan, Belgium, Canada, Ghana, Japan, Sweden, Brazil, Algeria, Israel, France, Colombia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Spain, Venezuela, The Gambia, Indonesia, Finland, Mexico, Nigeria, Nepal, Switzerland, Paraguay, Sudan, Vietnam, Slovenia, Uruguay, Rwanda, Thailand, Denmark, Senegal, Austria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia

Wambian have run an OpenFlexure Microscope workshop in Dakar! We are excited to hear more about their microscopic adventures. 🔬

Full video here:
x.com/pez_hayes/st...

#OpenScience #Science #Education #OpenSource #OpenHardware

A dozen plastic bags of components, washers etc from UK company Labcrafter to build a 3-D printed microscope designed by OpenFlexure. Image from Labcrafter, at https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/openflexure-microscope

Now this is pretty cool 🤓🧪. Anyone for a microscope?
BYO objective lens.

Openflexure via @labcrafter.co.uk
#StayCurious

A composite image of an OpenFlexure Microscope from 3 angles

We have just released a new beta of our long awaited Version 7 hardware release! 🔬

Assembly instructions and all STL files available here:
build.openflexure.org/openflexure-...

#OpenSource #OpenHardware #OpenScience #Microscopy

YouTube video by OpenFlexure Welcome to OpenFlexure

Have you ever wondered what an OpenFlexure Microscope really is? How to build one? And what it is used for?

Look no further! Welcome to OpenFlexure:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmL...

Announcement poster for OpenFlexure at FOSDEM 2025

The OpenFlexure team are really excited to have our first ever FOSDEM stand.

See you in February!

fosdem.org/2025/news/20...

#OpenSource #OpenHardware

A map of all locations the OpenFlexure Microscope has been built or used in. 58 countries/territories on all seven continents are highlighted in pink.

Hello BlueSky.

The OpenFlexure Project is an open source project that allows anyone to build a robotic microscope anywhere in the world.

So far people have told us that they have built or used an OpenFlexure Microscope in 50+ countries. Have you built or used one in a country that isn't pink yet?

3D printed microscope slide holder. Closed, top view.

3D printed microscope slide holder. Closed, top-back view.

3D printed microscope slide holder. Closed, bottom view.

3D printed microscope slide holder. Open.

Started to tidy workshop. Realised workshop has no microscope slide storage. Designed 1st iteration of slide holder for @openflexure.bsky.social project (& stopped tidying).

Had some first layer issues, but turned out ok!

Source:
gitlab.com/openflexure/...

#OpenHardware

YouTube video by OpenFlexure What can OpenFlexure do for Global Health? | OFM, Baylor and Rwanda

What can OpenFlexure do for Global Health?

Dr Elisee, Dr Hummel, Dr Rosen and Dr Knapper discuss how their work in Butare, Rwanda, has enabled pathologists and strengthened their training.

With thanks to the CAP Foundation

Full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGBQ...