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The process of making blood smears is common in both research and clinicalsettings, for investigating the health of blood cells and the presence ofblood-borne parasites. It is very often carried out manually. We focus here onsmears for malaria diagnosis and research which are frequently analyzed byoptical microscopy and require a high quality. Automating the smear preparationpromises to increase throughput and to improve the quality and consistency ofthe smears. We present here two devices (manual and motorized) designed to aidin the making of blood smears. These are fully documented, open-sourcehardware, and an important principle was to make them easily fabricated locallyanywhere. Designs and assembly instructions are freely available under an openlicense. We also describe an image analysis pipeline for characterizing thequality of smears, and use it to optimize the settings and tunable parametersin the two devices. The devices perform as well as expert human operators,while not requiring a trained operator and offering potential advantages inreproducibility and standardization across facilities.

autohaem: 3D printed devices for automated preparation of blood smears