Bom dia from Brazil! 🇧🇷 The OpenFlexure team and our colleagues from the Baylor College of Medicine are visiting the Hospital de Amor in Barretos to follow up on our work to develop the OpenFlexure Microscope for use in digital pathology! 🔬 #OpenFlexure #DigitalPathology #Microscopy

Big news! 🔬 The OpenFlexure Project just won the GW4 Alliance Open Research Prize! 🏆 We’re honoured to be recognised for our commitment to making microscopy transparent, reproducible, and accessible to all. Open Research is at the heart of everything we do. Read more: gw4.ac.uk/orw/

🔬 Huge Update: OpenFlexure v3.0.0-alpha5 is live! This release brings us significantly closer to a stable beta. Highlights: ✅ UI migrated to Vue3 ✅ New ScanWorkflows ✅ Continuous "jogging" movement ✅ Smaller SD image size Full details & code: 🔗 gitlab.com/openflexure/...

OpenFlexure / openflexure-microscope-server · GitLab

API server and web interface for the OpenFlexure Microscope.

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Thx for the invitation. Great evening. Credit to @openflexure.bsky.social for the microscope & Jodie Malcolm & co making it ideal for live cell incubators. share.google/GjvRhmmIXlPU... @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

Yorkshire Philosophical Society@ypsyork.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social showing us a 3D printed microscope which can be used wherever and wherever it is needed

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

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...

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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

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...

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...

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

Greg Saunier@gregsaunier.bsky.social · last yr.

Designing for 3D Printing by Rahix is a master class guide! Comprehensive, well written and illustrated, it's essential reading for anyone designing mechanical parts. blog.rahix.de/design-for-3...

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

Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · last yr.

trying to predict root trajectory #barley #roots #IRimaging #IRleds grown on soil in darkness @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social - some dancing roots before the weekend :)

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.

julianstirling@julianstirling.bsky.social · 2y ago

This video looks so cool: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mf6... They have modified an OpenFlexure to use an OpenMV camera, and to add motion control buttons and a little screen. There is a whole video tutorial, it's a shame I don't speak Chinese :( #OpenHardware CC @openflexure.bsky.social

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

julianstirling@julianstirling.bsky.social · 2y ago

This video looks so cool: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mf6... They have modified an OpenFlexure to use an OpenMV camera, and to add motion control buttons and a little screen. There is a whole video tutorial, it's a shame I don't speak Chinese :( #OpenHardware CC @openflexure.bsky.social

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.

Merry Christmas from the OpenFlexure Project. Did Santa get anyone a microscope? 🔬🎅🎁

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-...

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...

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🚨REALLY COOL PAPER ALERT!🚨

Liam Rooney@liam-rooney.bsky.social · 2y ago

We built on the @openflexure.bsky.social platform to combine a 3D printed microscope chassis with both a 3D printed condenser and objective lens. Now we have the entire microscope, including the optics, printed for less than £7.00… and it works! (2/N)

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

@mindnumbed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very cool TV feature on Solomon's work making @openflexure.bsky.social microscopes out of recycled plastic! youtu.be/VUjTczioAd0?...

Some exciting microscope building happening in UCL! See original on twitter: x.com/BIIG_UCL/sta... @uclofficial.bsky.social 🔬 #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenHardware

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

Now this is pretty cool 🤓🧪. Anyone for a microscope? BYO objective lens. Openflexure via @labcrafter.co.uk #StayCurious

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

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...

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YouTube video by OpenFlexure

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The OpenFlexure team are really excited to have our first ever FOSDEM stand. See you in February! fosdem.org/2025/news/20... #OpenSource #OpenHardware

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?

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