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Open Tools for Open Science: LabCrafter provides open-source scientific instruments, ensuring you understand your tools inside out and empowering you to modify your lab equipment to meet your research needs.

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Our meeting with the Open Science Shop's group of manufacturers went even better when @wellreadpanda.bsky.social shows up with sloth friends.
people in a jitsi call with sloths
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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What better way to start the week than with LabCrafter's one-year anniversary! 🥳

We want to extend a huge thank you to our customers. It's been a joy sharing our love for open-source scientific equipment with all of you.

For now, it's time for a well-deserved cake break! 🎂🥂
A smiling couple (Gerrit & Margriet), wearing party hats and LabCrafter t-shirts. They're standing in front of a world map. Text at the bottom says "1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY" in red and white.
September 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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dinalab.bsky.social
Here's a super cool documentary about the Mothbox!

Learn about the development and use of this fun #openscience #opensource tool for DIY biodiversity monitoring!

youtu.be/1LGz3aWpeVE?...
Mothbox - Wildlabs Award 2024
YouTube video by Digital Naturalism Laboratories (Andrew Quitmeyer)
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Crimping a connector for a fluorescence add-on we're collaborating on for the OpenFlexure microscope.
A bunch of 3D printed components, wires and screws are lying on a cutting mat. There's an orange Engineer PA-09 crimping tool in the foreground, as well as some screwdrivers and an allen key.
July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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dinalab.bsky.social
Happy Gosh Gathering from Dinacon!! 10 years ago @goshcommunity.bsky.social made a goal to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025!

The time has arrived and we are celebrating #opentools here with 53 people at Dinacon!
#openscience #opensource
Soon to be open kaleidoscope Andy and bri celebrate with shirts snd people making pcbs
July 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Being self-employed means we can do more of what we love. Recently we volunteered at our local children's nursery and brought the OpenFlexure Microscope. We had a great time hunting for garden creatures and viewing pre-prepared slides. The hairy fly legs were definitely the biggest hit!🪰
Gerrit and Margriet showing the OpenFlexure Microscope to a group of nursery children.
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Gerrit wrote a blog post about his experience at the 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh, organised by @oshwassociation.bsky.social .

gerritniezen.com/reviving-the...

#oshw #openscience #OHS2025
Reviving the Spirit of Open Science Hardware: Highlights from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit
Since starting our open science hardware company, LabCrafter, last year, I’ve been reflecting on the current state of open-source hardwar...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Gerrit gave a talk last week at the Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh about our collaboration with the AMYBO community to grow food with electricity! Thanks to @oshwassociation.bsky.social for organising this amazing summit and hosting it in the UK.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_2...
Gerrit Niezen: Growing Food with Electricity: Sustainable Protein Production
YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association
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June 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Oooh we are getting sooo antsy to see you all at the Summit in just FIVE days! We've even got a handful of tickets left if you want to join us: ohs2025.eventbrite.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Beautiful micrographs from the OpenFlexure microscope, showing off its ability to create huge stitched images: images.openflexure.org/viewer/
OpenFlexure Viewer
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May 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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A school in the Netherlands used our 5V boost converters (labcrafter.co.uk/products/5v-...) for their sensor boxes, and gave a presentation on their inspiring project at The Things Network Conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3B2...
Photo of a sensor box that has been opened, with LabCrafter's 5V boost converter visible on the bottom right of the board. Photo of a sensor box that has been opened. An antenna is attached to the lid, and all the electronics inside the box are visible. There's a small e-ink display showing readings from the various sensors.
April 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We wrote a post for the Open Science Shop newsletter, a network of open science hardware vendors that we're part of: www.openscienceshop.org/labcrafter/
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 recentl...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I’d never heard of the Pioreactor before! For anyone else curious:
Pioreactor: pioreactor.com
Electropioreactor: amybo.org/docs/electro...
Pioreactor
The Pioreactor is an accessible and affordable bioreactor - ideal for teaching biology & biotech to students, scaling up a lab, and more. The Pioreactor can grow and experiment with yeast, algae, and ...
pioreactor.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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We're working with the AMYBO.org community to extend the Pioreactor for sustainable protein experiments. 🦠
A couple of weeks ago, we ran a hands-on session at the Cambridge Festival Schools Days! 🧪🌱
KS3 students used the Pioreactor and @openflexure.bsky.social microscope to explore cyanobacteria.
Sandrine, an AMYBO volunteer, explaining how the Pioreactor works to a group of students sitting around a white table. There is a Pioreactor, an OpenFlexure microscope, a laptop and a screen on the table. Gerrit giving a presentation on biotechnology and sustainable protein to a group of students sitting on black chairs. There are two large screens showing the presentation. Rob, an AMYBO volutneer, handling a vial from the Pioreactor, surounded by a group of students sitting at a white table. There is a Pioreactor, laptop, kitchen roll and a box with purple disposable gloves on the table. Two smiling students, one looking directly at the camera, with a Pioreactor and OpenFlexure microscope in front of them. There is an extension cord with a power supply next to it.
April 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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OpenFlexure microscope and high-resolution upgrade kit now back in stock! labcrafter.co.uk/collections/...
OpenFlexure Microscope
Open tools for open science
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March 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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oshwassociation.bsky.social
On day 1 of #OHS2025 you can catch Gerrit Niezen of @labcrafter.co.uk talk about harnessing hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, creating an open-source bioreactor for small-scale protein production, making microbial protein fermentation accessible! Get your ticket today: 2025.oshwa.org/attend/
March 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the Open Hardware Summit 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland! Get your ticket today right here: ohs2025.eventbrite.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Very excited to be giving a talk at the upcoming Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh on May 30th: https://2025.oshwa.org/talks/070-gerrit-niezen/
Growing Food with Electricity: Sustainable Protein Production with a Kitchen-Table Bioreactor
2025.oshwa.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Whooo ill be there talking about Moths and Robots and robots to look at moths!
:00 AM Welcome Lee, Sid, Alicia 10:10 AM All Yarns Are Beautiful: Breathing new life into old knitting machines Carson Holgate More details 10:30 AM Democratizing material and technological knowledge: RepMat Library (REPlicating MATerials Library) Alessia Romani More details 10:50 AM The Mothbox Project: How Open Source Hardware Can Benefit Conservation Research Bri Johns, Kitty & Andy Quitmeyer, Hubert Szczygiel More details 11:10 AM Snack break 11:30 AM Building a FAIR Battery Sanli Faez More details 11:50 AM Open Source Desktop Biofibers Spinning Machine: From Biomaterials to Biofibers Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Xin Wen, Nefeli Hadjiyiannis, Mirela Alistar, Laura Devendorf, Michael Rivera More details 12:10 PM Growing Food with Electricity: Sustainable Protein Production with a Kitchen-Table Bioreactor Gerrit Niezen More details 12:30 PM Maintaining
February 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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New Product Alert! 🚨 Our in-house designed 5V Boost Converter is now in stock! Perfect for battery-powered environmental monitoring, it delivers 5V while fully disconnecting when disabled.

Learn more: https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/5v-boost-converter-with-true-shutdown

#OpenHardware
5V boost converter with true shutdown – LabCrafter
This compact (17x12mm) step-up converter provides a reliable 5V output with true shutdown, perfect for battery-powered applications like environmental monitoring. If you're using a 3.7V Li-Ion battery but need 5V to power your air quality sensor, this converter is an ideal solution. Unlike most boost converters that on
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February 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Busy preparing a new product for launch!
A bunch of small PCBs being depanelled and cleaned up
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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openflexure.bsky.social
We are having a blast at #FOSDEM, showcasing the OpenFlexure Microscopes and chatting with loads of other open-source enthusiasts!!

Come and see us in Hall H to get a demo of our microscope, and come along to our talk tomorrow at 15:20 CET in H.1309 (Van Rijn)!

#OpenSource
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Our OpenFlexure Microscope kits proved very popular, and now you can be notified when we're back in stock. We wrote our own code for this to eliminate use of third party Shopify Apps that share customer details.
Screenshot of LabCrafter website showing OpenFlexure microscope is out of stock
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Since Prusa decided to move away from open-source, it made it much easier to decide which 3D printer to buy next. Voron Design is similar to the OpenFlexure Project, in that a core team creates the design, and a network of vendors sell kits to build it. Looking forward to building this Voron 2.4!
January 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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openflexure.bsky.social
OpenFlexure Microscopes are more available than ever. It is really exciting to see so many businesses helping our community buy microscopes.

@labcrafter.co.uk have a new Hi-Res upgrade kit.

Fieldworkers in Japan are also selling a kit!

The true power of Open Hardware is that anyone can sell it.
January 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM