OpenFlexure Microscope V6 - Bag of Bits
Founding developers Richard Bowman and Julian Stirling
$39.00 USD
The OpenFlexure Microscope is a customisable optical microscope with inverted geometry on a high quality mechanical stage that can be motorised. It is mostly 3D printed and was designed by Richard Bowman and Julian Stirling at the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the University of Bath. It is a platform for research-laboratory imaging that is compact and easily assembled.
The 'OpenFlexure V6 - Bag of Bits' contains all fasteners and an illumination kit for the V6 OpenFlexure Microscope assembly. The remaining 3D printed parts are easily printable with online suppliers or with a PLA 3D printer. Other necessary electronic parts like motor, camera and raspberry Pi versions are listed here.
KEY FEATURES
- Usable with webcam and lab quality RMS threaded microscope objectives
- High performance
- Easy to assemble
CONTENTS
- 1 x plastic condenser lens
- 1 x wired LED (with resistor)
- 1 x 2pin DuPont housing connector
- 5 x Viton o-rings
- 8 x M3 nuts (brass)
- 10 x M3 washer (stainless steel)
- 6 x M4x6 button screw
- 14 x M3x8 cap screw
- 8 x M3x6 cap screw
- 4 x M2.5x6 cap screw
- 4 x 2.2x6.5 self tapping screws
- 1 x 2.5 mm ball driver
- Hex key tools
USING THE MICROSCOPE
Control the device directly from Raspberry Pi or from another computer (recommended) See instructions.
OpenFlexure Connect is a client used for control and discovery of the OpenFlexure Microscope. Raspbian-OpenFlexure is a full desktop operation system for the Raspberry Pi that includes the full graphical microscope control software.
PUBLICATION
Collins JT, Knapper J, Stirling J, Mduda J, Mkindi C, Mayagaya V, Mwakajinga GA, Nyakyi PT, Sanga VL, Carbery D, White L, Dale S, Lim ZJ, Baumberg JJ, Cicuta P, McDermott S, Vodenicharski B, Bowman RW (2020). Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope. Biomedical Optics Express.
Sharkey JP, Foo DCW, Kabla A, Baumberg JJ, Bowman RW, (2016) Review of Scientific Instruments.
Various media articles to give you a user-friendly introduction.
