From Microscopes to Microbes: What’s New at LabCrafter

At the beginning of September last year, my wife and I co-founded a new open science hardware company - LabCrafter - in Wales. We started by offering open science tools to folks in the UK, and recently expanded to serve the EU as well. In addition to being a vendor

Official launch of the OpenFlexure vendors page

This year the Open Science Shop community has been collaborating with the OpenFlexure team with the goal of building a global network of OpenFlexure microscope kit vendors. We have been organizing monthly OSS-OFM working group meetings since February which are archived here. We are really excited by how much progress

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (November 2024)

Recap of the November working group meeting

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (October 2024)

Update on the new OpenFlexure vendor page & promotional strategies

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (September 2024)

Update on the new OpenFlexure vendor page & promotional strategies

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (August 2024)

Agenda: Check-in on the manufacturer directory | Discussing the structure of future meetings.

Building Open Science Hardware with Secondary School Teachers

In this post, we learn more about an educational workshop for secondary school teachers that helped bring open science hardware to new audiences.

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (July 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns and Jo Long for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (June 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns and Jo Long for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

Recap: Open Science Shop & Open Flexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (May 2024)

Written by Jo Long and Brianna Johns for the Open Science Shop Newsletter Each month, we share a summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope (OFM) on

Commercialization of Open Source Hardware: Turning Open Designs into Profit

In this post, we take a closer look at cases of Open Source Hardware (OSH) projects that have successfully been commercialized.

Recap: Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Microscope Working Group Meeting (April 2024)

Written by Brianna Johns for the Open Science Shop Newsletter We are back with another summary of our most recent Open Science Shop & OpenFlexure Working Group (OSS-OFM WG) meeting as we continue to work together to enable distributed manufacturing of the OpenFlexure Microscope on a global scale. This week&