Media and Socials
Media Coverage and Socials
Media coverage, videos, and social channels highlighting the OpenFlexure project and its global impact across research, education, and open technology.
Community, Media and Coverage
Our community goes further than we’d ever imagined, and with a forum, YouTube channel, LinkedIn, Instagram and Bluesky, we’re sure you’ll find plenty of ways to keep up to date on everything the team is doing!
We’ve been lucky enough to be covered by a few incredible YouTube channels, magazines and websites. You’re welcome to create any kind of media about our work, and we’re always happy to help if you’d like to contact us with media enquiries.
Videos
Here are some of our favourite videos about our projects!
Welcome to OpenFlexure
A video we made to introduce people to the project - we cover the hardware, software and community in a short video celebrating all things OpenFlexure
Stronger 3D Prints & Less Supports: How to Design for 3D Printing
JanTec Engineering covers the principles of how to design printed parts without supports, and mentions the OpenFlexure Microscope main body as an example that’s “too cool not to share”!
Exploring the Microcosmos with a 3D Printed Microscope (OpenFlexure)
Astro By Orlando normally covers Astrophotography (and made his own incredible observatory!), but here shares his experience building and using something a bit closer to home - an OpenFlexure Microscope
Building the OpenFlexure Microscope
Tim from Tinker Tech Trove shows his microscope, how he built it, and some of the amazing images he’s taken
The Kenya Open Telepathology Project (OpenFlexure Microscope)
A 36 minute, beautifully produced video from our collaborators at Meru University and Dr. Daniel Maitethia, exploring everything they’re doing to support healthcare in Kenya
What can OpenFlexure do for Global Health? | OFM, Baylor and Rwanda
Co-produced with collaborators at the Baylor College of Medicine, take a look at our work in a pathology centre in Rwanda, and how OpenFlexure is making a difference to healthcare in the south of the country
Media articles
- Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world
- Microscopy for everyone: How the OpenFlexure Microscope is changing global healthcare
- Local Ingenuity, Global Impact: How the OpenFlexure Microscope is Enabling Microscopy for Everyone
- 3D Printing Microscopes Around the World
- A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers
- Telepathology for Everybody: Part 2 - Meet the pathologists bringing telepathology to low-resource settings
- Telepathology for Everybody: Part 1 - The story of the OpenFlexure 3D-printable microscope
- UVA Professors, Students Launch Open-Source Maker Library for Teachers
- Sandra Waterwood Acquah: Navigating the World of Synthetic Biology Through iGEM
- Microscopy Workshops in Ghana
- 3D printed microscope promises bigger, better science
- WACCBIP HOLDS BIO-IMAGING WEST AFRICA 2022 WORKSHOP
- Microscopy made to order
- Distributed Manufacturing of Open Hardware: A Report of the Open Hardware Distribution & Documentation Working Group
- High-spec open-source microscopy for all
- The impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy
- OpenFlexure: an open-source 3D printed microscope
- Making hardware 'open source' can help us fight future pandemics - here's how we get there
- How DIY technologies are democratising science
- Building Blocks for Better Science: Case Studies in Low-Cost and Open Tools for Science
- OpenFlexure Microscope
- Focusing on a brighter future: How an ultra-low-cost 3D printed microscope could revolutionise healthcare in LMICs
- Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
- Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
- Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for £15
- Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope
- Precision for $100: The OpenFlexure Microscope
- OpenFlexure Block Stage: 3D printed sub-micron mechanical precision
- "Sustainable Development Technology and Beyond" -- VigyanShaala @ UPES, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Five innovative ways to use 3D printing in the laboratory
- Could 3D printed microscopes improve water testing?
- Open-science hardware in the developing world
- 6 cool open-source projects built in Bristol and Bath
- The quest for open science
- The OpenFlexure Microscope goes to MozFest 2017
- 3D printed microscopes to boost science in developing countries
- The OpenFlexure Microscope: A Lifesaving Water-Testing Device You Can 3D Print at Home
- Open source, 3D printed microscope runs on Raspberry Pi
- This open source, 3D printed microscope runs on Raspberry Pi
- This 3D-Printed Microscope Is Bringing Water Testing to the Developing World
- Female Scientists Journey to Antarctica and into Leadership
