Where are you? (OFM location survey)

@dusjagr said in this thread that it was the plan, I don’t think we’ve seen anything since then?

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Tolocar have build microscopes in Ukraine

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A bit more of an update from Ukraine is here (auto translated):

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@JohemianKnapsody @r.w.bowman @WilliamW Have you had any interactions with Konstantin from Tolocar?

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I have not had any interactions, thank you for spotting this.

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Via Linkedin, a doctor in Mexico city has built one for his lab

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Too cute :slight_smile: - though antarctica no longer looks quite so impressive in this projection! Clearly we need more users in the oceans…

OpenFlexureCon 2025 can be a cruise?

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Just had a lab tour from Associate Professor Janis Alnis from Latvia, who’s built a block stage for fibre alignment and printed out an OFM v5. You can find his Youtube channel here

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Hi, I’m from Turkey. Finished building low cost version.

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We have forgotten to add Paraguay. CEDIC and Edgar Arévalos made a modified V6 with NEMA stepper motors in a Travel case:

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Saad Chinoy has reminded me that he had a v5 OpenFlexure in 2018 in Koh Lon, Thailand.

Juan Gancio has told us on Twitter that he has one in Uruguay!

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Wambian ran an OpenFlexure workshop in Dakar, Senegal:

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