echOpen is an open and collaborative project and community, led by a multidisciplinary core of experts and senior professionals with the aim of designing a functional low-cost (affordable) and open source echo-stethoscope (ultrasound probe) connected to a smartphone, allowing the radical transformation of diagnostic orientation in hospitals, general medicine and medically underserved areas. This initiate...Read More

The trick of making a microscope out of a webcam has been around for a little while and produces good results. However, getting a nice mechanical stage to focus the microscope and move around on the sample is tricky. The OpenFlexureMicroscope  is a 3D printable microscope, including a precise mechanical stage to move the sample and focus...Read More

IMPACT PHOTONICS engineers open-source and cost-effective scientific instrumentation that makes the best out of photons. IMPACT PHOTONICS’ main goal, via its flagship project GAMMA , is to provide healthcare-professionals with a high sensitivity absorption spectrometer, able to perform a blood chemistry analysis on-the-go for less than €2 per panel. With a core expertise in optical spectroscopy and...Read More

Robert Klapisch, president of the Foundation, invites you to view Bill Gates’s interview by Charlie Rose. The discussed issues converge with the interests and topics of our organisation. Bill Gates – interview by Charlie Rose, 22 February 2016  Read More