Mastodawn

OpenFlexure is an open source laboratory-grade microscope used to diagnose malaria and cancer. In this interview Julian Stirling, one of the core developers, tells us how the project evolved from its academic roots to a diverse community of people who use it, build it, sell it, teach it & develop it.
OpenFlexure is manufactured in many places to build local capacity. The next step is medical device certification, a slow but worthwhile process.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250806-openflexure-interview.html

#NGI #NGI0 #openhardware

NLnet; OpenFlexure: What It Takes to get Medical Device Certification for an Open Source Microscope

LabCrafter Jul 25

Crimping a connector for a fluorescence add-on we're collaborating on for the OpenFlexure microscope.

LabCrafter Jun 26

Tom Hodson Jun 26

Took the plunge and started printing parts for an Open Flexure Microscope! https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/ Ordered the parts from here https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/openflexure-microscope

LabCrafter Jun 25

Being self-employed means we can do more of what we love. Recently we volunteered at our local children's nursery and brought the OpenFlexure Microscope. We had a great time hunting for garden creatures and viewing pre-prepared slides. The hairy fly legs were definitely the biggest hit!🪰

LabCrafter Jun 23

FreeCAD Jun 23

Forged in FreeCAD: IO Rodeo’s Open Colorimeter
It's always fabulous to see open hardware, even more wonderful when the tool chain to make the hardware is open, and lastly, great when people have used FreeCAD as part of their fascinating projects.

#opencolorimeter #science #opensource

https://blog.freecad.org/2025/06/23/forged-in-freecad-io-rodeos-open-colorimeter/
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Forged in FreeCAD: IO Rodeo’s Open Colorimeter

It's always fabulous to see open hardware, even more wonderful when the tool chain to make the hardware is open, and lastly, great when people have used FreeCAD as part of their fascinating project…

FreeCAD News

LabCrafter Jun 13

Gerrit Niezen Jun 13

New blog post: Reviving the Spirit of Open Science Hardware - Highlights from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit organised by @oshwassociation

https://gerritniezen.com/reviving-the-spirit-of-open-science-hardware-highlights-from-the-2025-open

#oshw #openscience #OHS2025

Reviving the Spirit of Open Science Hardware: Highlights from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit

Since starting our open science hardware company, LabCrafter, last year, I’ve been reflecting on the current state of open-source hardwar...

Gerrit Niezen

LabCrafter Jun 4

Gerrit gave a talk last week at the Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh about our collaboration with the AMYBO community to grow food with electricity! Thanks to @oshwassociation for organising this amazing summit and hosting it in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_2arUk4iA

Gerrit Niezen: Growing Food with Electricity: Sustainable Protein Production

YouTube

LabCrafter May 23

Beautiful micrographs from the OpenFlexure microscope, showing off its ability to create huge stitched images:

https://images.openflexure.org/viewer/

OpenFlexure Viewer

LabCrafter Apr 30

A school in the Netherlands used our 5V boost converters (https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/5v-boost-converter-with-true-shutdown) for their sensor boxes, and gave a presentation on their inspiring project at The Things Network Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3B2SR7buZk

5V boost converter with true shutdown

LabCrafter Apr 16

We wrote a post for the Open Science Shop newsletter, a network of open science hardware vendors that we're part of: https://www.openscienceshop.org/labcrafter/

From Microscopes to Microbes: What’s New at LabCrafter

At the beginning of September last year, my wife and I co-founded a new open science hardware company - LabCrafter - in Wales. We started by offering open science tools to folks in the UK, and recently expanded to serve the EU as well. In addition to being a vendor

Open Science Shop

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