3D bioprinting of collagen-based high-resolution internally perfusable scaffolds for engineering fully biologic tissue systems
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
Open biofabrication builds
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3D Printing of Individualized Microfluidic Chips with DLP-Based Printer
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
GBP 81.34+ host
A 3D-Printed Plate Handler for Automated Handling of Well Plates on the Opentrons OT-2
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
- Licence
- MIT
USD 230
A Custom Ultra-Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter Supports Cell Growth and Differentiation
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
< USD 20+ host
A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
A simple method of fabricating mask-free microfluidic devices for biological analysis
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
< USD 6,000
Adapting a Low-Cost and Open-Source Commercial Pipetting Robot for Nanoliter Liquid Handling
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
An open source extrusion bioprinter based on the E3D motion system and tool changer to enable FRESH and multimaterial bioprinting
- Build/skill
- 3/3
- Reports
EUR 2,045+ host
An Open-Source 3D Bioprinter Using Direct Light Processing for Tissue Engineering Applications
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
An open-source programmable smart pipette for portable cell separation and counting
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC
Analytical Measurements and Efficient Process Generation Using a Dual–Arm Robot Equipped with Electronic Pipettes
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
USD 325
Automated Liquid Handler from a 3D Printer
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
USD 3,000–7,000?
BIO-SPEC: An open-source bench-top parallel bioreactor system
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL
CAD 1,152
BioCloneBot: A versatile, low-cost, and open-source automated liquid handler
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL
USD 300
Commit: Digital Pipette
Commit: Digital pipette: open hardware for liquid transfer in self-driving laboratories
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
USD 300+ host
Design and implementation of a low cost bio-printer modification, allowing for switching between plastic and gel extrusion
- Build/skill
- 3/3
- Reports
Design and Implementation of an Accessible 3D Bioprinter: Benchmarking the Performance of a Home-Made Bioprinter against a Professional Bioprinter
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
Design and Validation of a Piston-Driven Syringe-Extrusion Bioprinter Using an FDM Frame
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
Design and Validation of an Open-Hardware Print-Head for Bioprinting Application
- Build/skill
- 3/3
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
USD 240?
Design of an Open-Source, Low-Cost Bioink and Food Melt Extrusion 3D Printer
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
Designing cost-effective open-source multihead 3D bioprinters
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
< USD 900
Development of a high-performance open-source 3D bioprinter
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
EUR 677
Development of a microfluidic-assisted open-source 3D bioprinting system (MOS3S) for the engineering of hierarchical tissues
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Enhanced Growth of Bacterial Cells in a Smart 3D Printed Bioreactor
- Build/skill
- 3/3
- Reports
Establishment of low-cost laboratory automation processes using AutoIt and 4-axis robots
- Build/skill
- 2/4
- Reports
< USD 500
EvoBot: An Open-Source, Modular, Liquid Handling Robot for Scientific Experiments
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
< USD 1,500
Extrusion-Based Bioprinting in a Cost-Effective Bioprinter
- Build/skill
- 2/4
- Reports
< EUR 600
Fabrication and validation of an affordable DIY coaxial 3D extrusion bioprinter
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
< USD 400
FINDUS: An Open-Source 3D Printable Liquid-Handling Workstation for Laboratory Automation in Life Sciences
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
< GBP 300
Homebrew photolithography for the rapid and low-cost,“Do It Yourself” prototyping of microfluidic devices
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
Hydrogel Patterns in Microfluidic Devices by Do-It-Yourself UV-Photolithography Suitable for Very Large-Scale Integration
- Build/skill
- 2/2
- Reports
USD 110+ host
Leveraging flexible pipette-based tool changes to transform liquid handling systems into dual-function sample preparation and imaging platforms
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
USD 1,200
Low-cost near-field electrospinning machine
A cost-effective and open-source near-field electrospinning system with a graphical user interface
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA
Low-cost, versatile, and highly reproducible microfabrication pipeline to generate 3D-printed customised cell culture devices with complex designs
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
EUR 736
LusoBioMaker: A low-cost 3D bioprinter with multi-extrusion and contour printing capabilities for thermo- and photocurable hydrogels towards complex tissue fabrication
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
Mask-free laser lithography for rapid and low-cost microfluidic device fabrication
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
USD 500+ host
MEWron
Melt Electrowriting of Nylon‐12 Microfibers with an Open‐Source 3D Printer
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- MIT
USD 260
Microextrusion bioprinter
Development and implementation of a significantly low-cost 3D bioprinter using recycled scrap material
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
< USD 70
Microextrusion-based bioprinting printhead
A Versatile Open-Source Printhead for Low-Cost 3D Microextrusion-Based Bioprinting
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
Modular microfluidic systems cast from 3D-printed molds for imaging leukocyte adherence to differentially treated endothelial cultures
- Build/skill
- 2/2
- Reports
EUR 500
mSLAb–An open-source masked stereolithography (mSLA) bioprinter
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA
EUR 90+ host
Nydus One Syringe Extruder (NOSE): A Prusa i3 3D printer conversion for bioprinting applications
- Build/skill
- 3/3
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Open-source cell culture automation system with integrated cell counting for passaging microplate cultures
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
EUR 1,150
Open-source hybrid 3D-bioprinter for simultaneous printing of thermoplastics and hydrogels
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- GPL
Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
< USD 1,000
OpenLH
OpenLH: Open Liquid-Handling System for Creative Experimentation with Biology
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
USD 900+ host
OpenWorkstation: A modular open-source technology for automated in vitro workflows
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
USD 1,500
OTTO
Principles of computer-controlled linear motion applied to an open-source affordable liquid handler for automated micropipetting
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
USD 600–800
Personal Pipetting Robot
Open-source personal pipetting robots with live-cell incubation and microscopy compatibility
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- MIT
USD 250
Printess
A Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Printer for Multimaterial and High-Throughput Direct Ink Writing of Soft and Living Materials
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
PyLabRobot: An open-source, hardware-agnostic interface for liquid-handling robots and accessories
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- MIT
Real-time AI-driven quality control for laboratory automation: a novel computer vision solution for the opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
USD 141+ host
Replistruder 4
A high performance open-source syringe extruder optimized for extrusion and retraction during FRESH 3D bioprinting
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
USD 710
Sidekick
Sidekick: A Low-Cost Open-Source 3D-printed liquid dispensing robot
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
Srishti: a custom-built laser-assisted 3D bioprinter for fabricating high-resolution biological constructs
- Build/skill
- 3/2
- Reports
STARTER
STARTER: a stand-alone reconfigurable and translational organ-on-chip platform based on modularity and open design principles
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
Teach your microscope how to print: low-cost and rapid-iteration microfabrication for biology
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
Technical upgrade of an open-source liquid handler to support bacterial colony screening
- Build/skill
- 3/4
- Reports
USD 8,000
The ‘bIUreactor’: an open-source 3D tissue research platform
- Build/skill
- 4/4
- Reports
The Enderstruder: An accessible open-source syringe extruder compatible with Ender series 3D printers
- Build/skill
- 4/2
- Reports
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0
No builds match these filters.
— means the source records nothing, not that the answer is no.
+ host and * mark a cost that excludes the printer or robot arm the design mounts on.
? marks a figure whose source names no currency, shown as USD. Costs are as each paper states them, not converted between currencies or adjusted for inflation.
Build/skill is the parts-sourcing score / the skill-needed score, each out of 5, higher is easier; across this corpus both run 2–4 rather than the full 1–5, so a 3 is the middle of the field.
Reports shows five marks, one per performance measurement a laboratory needs — motion accuracy, volumetric accuracy, cell viability, unattended operation, compliance with a standard — coloured where the paper states a number and grey where it does not. Dashed marks mean the full text is not held, so the question is unanswered rather than answered no.
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