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 or check out our press pack! Make sure to tag us so we can share your work with our community.

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 (OpenFlexture)

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

Title Date Source
Microscopy for everyone: How the OpenFlexure Microscope is changing global healthcare July 2025 The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Local Ingenuity, Global Impact: How the OpenFlexure Microscope is Enabling Microscopy for Everyone June 2025 Glasgow Insight into Science and Technology
3D Printing Microscopes Around the World June 2025 ITNOW
A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers August 2024 Wired.com
Telepathology for Everybody: Part 2 - Meet the pathologists bringing telepathology to low-resource settings April 2024 The Pathologist
Telepathology for Everybody: Part 1 - The story of the OpenFlexure 3D-printable microscope April 2024 The Pathologist
UVA Professors, Students Launch Open-Source Maker Library for Teachers March 2024 University of Virginia
Sandra Waterwood Acquah: Navigating the World of Synthetic Biology Through iGEM September 2023 iGEM Community
Microscopy Workshops in Ghana March 2023 Max Delbrück Center
3D printed microscope promises bigger, better science March 2023 Azim Premji University
WACCBIP HOLDS BIO-IMAGING WEST AFRICA 2022 WORKSHOP October 2022 West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP)
Microscopy made to order November 2021 Nature Methods
Distributed Manufacturing of Open Hardware: A Report of the Open Hardware Distribution & Documentation Working Group November 2021 Engleberg center on Innovation Law & Policy
High-spec open-source microscopy for all November 2021 Physics World
The impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy May 2021 European Commission
OpenFlexure: an open-source 3D printed microscope October 2021 FocalPlane
Making hardware ‘open source’ can help us fight future pandemics - here’s how we get there January 2021 The Conversation
How DIY technologies are democratising science November 2020 Nature technology deature
Building Blocks for Better Science: Case Studies in Low-Cost and Open Tools for Science November 2020 Wilson Center
OpenFlexure Microscope August 2020 MagPi
Focusing on a brighter future: How an ultra-low-cost 3D printed microscope could revolutionise healthcare in LMICs June 2020 British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18 May 2020 Science Daily
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18 May 2020 Phys.org
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for £15 April 2020 University of Bath
Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope March 2020 preLights
Precision for $100: The OpenFlexure Microscope August 2019 Lab on the Cheap
OpenFlexure Block Stage: 3D printed sub-micron mechanical precision June 2019 Lab on the Cheap
“Sustainable Development Technology and Beyond” – VigyanShaala @ UPES, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India March 2019 Medium
Five innovative ways to use 3D printing in the laboratory January 2019 Nature toolbox
Could 3D printed microscopes improve water testing? December 2018 The Guardian
Open-science hardware in the developing world August 2018 Physics world
6 cool open-source projects built in Bristol and Bath February 2018 TechSPARK
The quest for open science November 2017 TechRadar
The OpenFlexure Microscope goes to MozFest 2017 October 2017 Medium
3D printed microscopes to boost science in developing countries August 2017 University of Bath
The OpenFlexure Microscope: A Lifesaving Water-Testing Device You Can 3D Print at Home February 2017 3DPRINT.COM
Open source, 3D printed microscope runs on Raspberry Pi January 2017 LinuxGizmos.com
This open source, 3D printed microscope runs on Raspberry Pi January 2017 Adafruit blog
This 3D-Printed Microscope Is Bringing Water Testing to the Developing World January 2017 Hackster.io
Female Scientists Journey to Antarctica and into Leadership March 2016 chuffed.org