[HN Gopher] NanoMi: Source-available transmission electron micro...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       NanoMi: Source-available transmission electron microscope
        
       https://github.com/NanoMi-org/NanoMi
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMi-UkWSFS8
        
       Author : pillars
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2025-10-08 05:24 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nanomi.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nanomi.org)
        
       | anfractuosity wrote:
       | The hardware itself doesn't appear to be open though? -
       | "Blueprints are available on case by case basis"
        
         | lazyhalide wrote:
         | It's not, and the process is awful. To get access to blueprints
         | or hardware specifications you need to provide proof of
         | academic credentials and affiliation with a relevant research
         | project.
         | 
         | They really shouldn't be calling it an open-source anything.
         | 
         | Nanographs, a company out of Portland, is probably a better
         | source of open microscope information
         | (https://www.nanographs.io/).
        
           | anfractuosity wrote:
           | Thanks for the link, not come across that before.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | [stub for offtopicness]
       | 
       | (we changed 'open source' to 'source available' in the title
       | above)
        
         | amacbride wrote:
         | "At this point, private individuals will not be able to obtain
         | licences to the NanoMi platform."
         | 
         | Does "open source" have a different meaning in Canadian?
        
           | observationist wrote:
           | It looks to me like they're doing some sort of legal
           | technicality in order to qualify for funding of some sort.
           | 
           | This appears to be F tier legal fuckery, not open source at
           | all.
        
         | dekhn wrote:
         | I flagged this because it appears the system is not actually
         | open-source using the common understanding of the term.
        
       | gorkish wrote:
       | I had a look and this project is most definitely not open source.
       | Nobody should be making that claim.
       | 
       | Changing the HN headline to soften the project's own bombastic
       | claim isn't really the point of the argument. It would bhe better
       | to highlight any project that is actually working on open source
       | microscopy of which there are many. Flagged
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Don't these things require like beryllium window and low
       | background steel?
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-10-10 23:00 UTC)