3 papers
physics.ins-det2021
Fast, high precision autofocus on a motorised microscope: automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope
Joe Knapper, Joel T. Collins, Julian Stirling +3
The OpenFlexure Microscope is a 3D printed, low-cost microscope capable of automated image acquisition through the use of a motorised translation stage and a Raspberry Pi imaging s…
physics.ins-det2019
Flat-field and colour correction for the Raspberry Pi camera module
Richard Bowman, Boyko Vodenicharski, Joel Collins +1
The Raspberry Pi camera module is widely used in open source hardware projects as a low cost camera sensor. However, when the stock lens is removed and replaced with other custom o…
physics.ins-det2019
The OpenFlexure Block Stage: Sub-100 nm fibre alignment with a monolithic plastic flexure stage
Qingxin Meng, Kerrianne Harrington, Julian Stirling +1
As 3D printers become more widely available, researchers are able to rapidly produce components that may have previously taken weeks to have machined. The resulting plastic compone…