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 wit

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/ https://www.nanographs.io/).