First build, High Resolution and Low Cost OFM microscopes

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Hello, I’m sharing some pictures of our OpenFlexure low-cost and high resolution microscope builds! Hope you like our monochrome orange microscopes :tangerine: :tangerine:

We used a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3D printer. In total we used 360g of orange PLA filament and 11g of black PLA filament. Total print time was around 12 hours.

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high_power_version_5
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Some images from prepared slides:

h_res_onion_cells
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h_res_mushroom
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h_res_waterlily
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h_res_cardiac
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h_res_hydrilla_leaf
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We also made the low-cost version and have been able to switch between the two versions pretty easily. Here is an image of the low-cost version as well:

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low_cost_mushroom
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low_cost_hydrilla_leaf
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It was a really fun build and the microscope images we captured were fantastic, especially with the high-resolution version. I used prepared slides to get started using the microscope quickly.

Thanks!

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@jorodeo great builds! It is very nice to see images from the two optics versions side by side here. Is your high resolution lens 40x?

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Thanks @WilliamW! Yes exactly, it’s the 40x lens. We used an Amscope 40X. We have also written up a short blog post about our build here if you want to check it out: Spotlight: Building an OpenFlexure Microscope.

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Lovely - really nice build and images (even with the low cost)