The file 'OPN Block Head Brightfield To Fluorescence Microscope Conversion Kit 3D Printer Model' is (3mf,stl,txt) file type, size is 1.0MB.
3D model files for use in 3D printing a small, inexpensive fluorescent microscope module.
Read our full paper here for more details and to see a full application in use for imaging calcium signals in live central nervous system preparations:
https://www.funjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/june-19-124.pdf
Please read the readme file before proceeding with printing. If there are any questions or if you would like some adaptors for use with other microscopes, please contact me at [email protected]
Several components, including the filter tray, excitation filter holder and emission filter holder were adapted and modified from the OPN Microscope designed by Stewart and Giannini (2016), whom have a suite of open source laboratory equipment: https://pages.stolaf.edu/opn-lab/equipment/
Please do feel free to modify, change or adapt these files to suit your needs (CC BY-SA 4.0).
If you implement the OPN Blockhead in a teaching lab, please let me know! It always brings me joy to see people using our kit. Please cite our paper if you can:
Booth, J.H., Sane, V., Gather, M.C., Pulver, S.R. (2020) ‘Inexpensive Methods for Live Imaging of Central Pattern Generator Activity in the Drosophila Larval Locomotor System ’, The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 19(1), pp. A124–A133.
AI3M_Compiled-printbed-CURAsettings.3mf | 512.5KB | |
Compiled-printbed.stl | 913.7KB | |
emissions-filter-holder-25mm.stl | 75.1KB | |
excitation-filter-holder-25mm.stl | 40.2KB | |
Filter-Tray-Drawer-round-sanslion.stl | 348.9KB | |
Filter-Tray-Drawer-round.stl | 637.2KB | |
lightsource-holder.stl | 180.0KB | |
Main-body.stl | 264.2KB | |
README.txt | 1.9KB | |
Trinocular-adapter.stl | 61.0KB |