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OpenFlexure Microscope

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3D-printed automated laboratory microscope with a monolithic flexure stage, designed to be built locally for a fraction of the cost of a commercial instrument.

A human confirmed this record against its sources within the last 12 months.

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record
Category
Devices & Hardware
Subcategory
microscopy
License
CERN-OHL-1.2(open-hardware)
Status
active
Maturity
deployed
Organization
unknown
Country
unknown
Tags
microscope · microscopy · 3d-printing · openscad · open-hardware · laboratory · malaria
Regulatory
unknown
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sources
  1. api.github.com/repos/rwb27/openflexure_microscope
    retrieved 2026-08-18 · via github-api

    273 stars. The description states the repository has moved to gitlab.com/openflexure/openflexure-microscope and the GitHub copy was last pushed 2019-04-30, so the GitLab project is recorded as the canonical location and status reflects the live project rather than the mirror.

  2. gitlab.com/openflexure/openflexure-microscope/
    retrieved 2026-08-18 · via manual

    Licence read from the project's own files as CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2. GitHub reports NOASSERTION because its detector does not recognise CERN-OHL.

Verified 2026-08-18 by gh:judegomila. Correct this record →

machine-readable

/v1/entries/7.json→ .entries["openflexure-microscope"]

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