Poseidon is a well documented open source microfluidics and imaging system consisting of a set of three DIY syringe pumps for $180 and a compatible microscope for $220. Poseidon is documented in a paper on BioRxiv by A. Sina Booeshaghi, Eduardo Beltrame, Dylan Bannon, Jase Gehring, and Lior Pachter . In the paper, the system is benchmarked to Harvard Apparatus […]
Category: 3D Printing
OpenFlexure Block Stage: 3D printed sub-micron mechanical precision
OpenFlexure Block Stage is a 3D printed flexure translation stage with sub-micron mechanical positioning. You can get the files to build it on GitHub. The project is 3-axis, short travel, high accuracy spinoff from the stage of the amazing OpenFlexure Microscope which we still haven’t covered, but we thought this stage deserved a post of its […]
Smartphone spectrophotometer for less than $6
We’ve covered smartphone florescence spectroscopy before, and we also have a post on building your own Lego spectrometer. In a similar vein check out a dedicated spectrophotometer detailed in a paper by Vasco Pereira and Bill Hosker. Maybe. The paper covers a 3D-printed version and teases a Lego constructed version. Either way, you have a […]
Incu-Stream: Inverted Bright-Field Microscopy and Automated Mechanical Scanning for just $184
Incu-Stream is an open-hardware microscopy setup designed for bright-field cell imaging of incubated microplates. The design is all laid out in a paper written by Güray Gürkan and Koray Gürkan, with nothing hidden in a supplementary packet this time. The system is specifically aimed at creating a microplate compatible inverted bright-field microscope system that can […]
DIY Fluorescence Smartphone Microscopy
We’ve covered several portable microscopy setups before, including Foldscope, wooden scope, and our favorite these little UV magnifiers. We like the latter so much because it is capable of both white light, and UV light, and we found we were capable of doing a little bit of fluorescence microscopy on it. That’s where a 2017 […]