X-WOW · borderless inventionX-WOW · 无国界发明
Lab-grade seeing and making, with no gatekeepers, given away free. Whoever builds it is welcome to claim the success.
实验室级的观察与制造，没有门槛，免费送出。谁造出来，成功就算谁的。
Why this exists为什么做这个
I'm not interested in money, fame or research credit. These are ideas I think are great, and I'd rather see them built than see my name on them.
我对钱、名气和科研署名都没兴趣。这些是我觉得很棒的点子，比起署上我的名字，我更想看到它们真的被造出来。
If you build one, it's yours. Improve it, publish it, teach with it, and you're welcome to claim the success. Selling it is fine too where the patents allow; each invention has a legal note.
你造出来，它就是你的。改进它、发表它、拿去教学都行，成功尽管算你的。专利允许的地方，拿去卖也可以；每个发明都附有法律说明。
Mission使命
X-WOW began as the Pathology Without Borders Initiative. Now it widens to borderless invention: lab-grade seeing and making, with no gatekeepers, given away free.
X-WOW 起步于“无国界病理”计划。现在它扩展为无国界发明：实验室级的观察与制造，没有门槛，免费送出。
Each SWELL number carries the simulation file or document line it came from. Point at a dotted underline to see it.
SWELL 的每个数字都带着出处：来自哪个模拟文件，或哪份文档的哪一行。指向带虚线的数字就能看到。
SWELL's blind test lists its two misses right next to its passes. You see the failures before you spend a penny.
SWELL 的盲测把两处失手和通过的项目并排列出。花钱之前，你先看到失败。
On the bench工作台上
Simulated, never built仅模拟，尚未造出Free to build免费，随便造
A cheap, automated expansion microscope. Swell a sample a few times bigger, image it with cheap optics, and let the muscle's own stripes check the result.
一台便宜的全自动膨胀显微镜：把样本泡大几倍，用便宜的镜头拍，再用肌肉自带的条纹当尺子检查结果。
Noticeboard opening soon布告栏即将开放
Retired microscopes and scanners, re-homed. A self-serve noticeboard is coming, plus a cheaper trick: ship the optics, not the stand.
退役的显微镜和扫描仪，帮它们找新家。自助布告栏即将上线，还有个更省钱的办法：只寄镜头，不寄机架。
Not announced until it is as complete as #001: design, parts, prices, safety and an honest list of unknowns.
等它和 #001 一样完整（设计、零件、价格、安全、老实的未知清单）再公开。
Origin起源
X-WOW began as the Pathology Without Borders Initiative. From December 2018 I found microscopes new homes with people who needed them, seven by the old site's count, and began asking labs for the retired ones gathering dust. In 2019, kind people chipped in for a low-cost slide scanner, so doctors treating children with cancer in Malawi could share slides with colleagues 7,400 miles away. A microbiology student in Abuja told me most students around him never touch a real microscope. So I put scanned biology slides online, named after him, and he went on to start a kids' science club. When classrooms closed in 2020, scientists gave free online lectures to students across Africa and beyond, part-funded by the Royal College of Pathologists' Public Engagement Grant.
X-WOW 最早叫“无国界病理”计划。从 2018 年 12 月起，我给显微镜找新家，送到需要的人手里，按旧网站的统计一共七台；也开始向实验室讨要那些在角落吃灰的退役显微镜。2019 年，一群好心人凑钱买了一套便宜的切片扫描系统，让马拉维给孩子看癌症的医生，能把切片发给 7,400 英里外的同行一起看。阿布贾一位学微生物的大学生告诉我，他身边的同学大多从没碰过真正的显微镜。于是我把扫描好的生物切片放到网上，用他的名字命名；后来他自己办起了儿童科学俱乐部。2020 年教室关门，科学家们为非洲和世界各地的学生开了免费网课，部分经费来自英国皇家病理学家学会的公众参与基金。
What I learned: a microscope in a cupboard helps nobody, and neither does software that needs a powerful computer. Tools have to travel light and cost little. So the mission widens. Not just pathology, and not just old equipment: lab-grade seeing and making, designed in the open and given away. SWELL is the first.
我学到的是：放在柜子里的显微镜帮不了任何人，要高配电脑才能跑的软件也一样。工具得轻便、便宜，才走得远。所以使命要放宽：不只是病理，也不只是旧设备，而是实验室级的观察与制造，公开设计，免费送出。SWELL 是第一个。
From the archive旧档案
From 2018 to 2020, X-WOW ran lectures, a kids' science club and free teaching material, and shared digital slides and a slide scanner. These pages keep the record and credit the people who made it happen.
2018 到 2020 年间，X-WOW 办过讲座、儿童科学俱乐部，做过免费教材，也分享过数字切片和切片扫描仪。这些页面留下记录，也感谢让这一切发生的人。
Digital biology slides, free to explore. It exists, and it is very nice.
免费浏览的数字生物切片。它一直在，而且很好看。
Hands-on science sessions for children.
给孩子们的动手科学活动。
2020Talks for students and professionals in medicine and veterinary science.
面向医学和兽医学学生与从业者的讲座。
Teaching material that explains pathology to children.
给孩子讲病理学的教材。
A past collaboration, and where to get a scanner today.
一段过去的合作，以及现在去哪里买扫描仪。
2018–2020Retired lab equipment, re-homed with people who need it.
让退役的实验设备去到需要它的人手里。