Feb 1, 2018
I made this in 10 munites, (if you don’t know what a braille printer is, just search it on google).
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OpenBraille is an Impressive DIY Embosser
In 2024, the Braille system will have been around for 200 years. What better way to mark the occasion than with an open source project devoted to making embossing equipment affordable for the visually impaired? This long overdue cause became the plight of [ccampos7], who couldn’t find a DIY embosser kit and set out to build one himself. While other embossers forcibly punch the letters in one go, OpenBraille takes a more gradual approach to ensure a clean impression with a rolling motion. Paper is placed between a mechanical encoder with moving pins and a dimpled roller that provides resistance …read more http://pje.fyi/Q8mmpD
Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Invented a Low-Cost Braille Printer
According to the National Federation of the Blind, fewer than 10 percent of 1.3 million blind Americans can read Braille. By comparison, in the 1950s, more than half of blind children learned to read the series of raised bumps.
This change has been brought on, in part, by the growth in assistive technology. In the past decade, voice-to-text software has dramatically changed the lives of the visually impaired. There are software programs that read text aloud, and most consumer hardware devices such as smartphones and tablets come equipped with software that can answer questions or provide small bits of information. A surprisingly few people with low vision or blindness even have access to Braille materials.
Shubham Banerjee stumbled across these facts, just as he was trying to come up with an entry-level engineering project in January 2014 for a science fair.
The 12-year-old realized that while many people have devices able to read aloud in some capacity, assuming voice-to-text should replace Braille is a costly proposition and one many people simply can’t afford. What if he could significantly reduce the cost of a Braille printer from $2,000—the going rate for a traditional Braille printer-embosser—to $200? Some Silicon Valley startups had been trying to do the same but with little success.
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Boy, 13, builds Braille printer with Legos, starts company
By TERENCE CHeeAssociatid Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – N' Silicon Valley, it’s nev'r too earlee ta becum un entrepreneur. Jes ast 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. T' Californy eighth-grad'r has launchet a cumpny ta develop loe-cost machines ta...
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Boy, 13, starts own company after building cheap Braille printer with Lego
IN Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee.
The California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired.
Tech giant Intel Corp recently invested in his start-up, Braigo Labs.
Shubham built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question: How do blind people read?
“Google it,” they told him.
Shubham then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers, also called embossers, cost at least US$2,000 (RM7,200) — too expensive for most blind readers, especially in developing countries.
“I just thought that price should not be there.
“I know that there is a simpler way to do this,” says Shubham.
He demonstrated how his printer works at the kitchen table where he spent many late nights building it with a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit.
Shubham wants to develop a desktop Braille printer that costs around US$350 (RM1,250) and weighs just a few pounds, compared with current models that can weigh more than 9kg.
The machine can be used to print Braille reading materials on paper, using raised dots instead of ink, from a personal computer or electronic device.
“My end goal would probably be having most of the blind people … using my Braille printer,” says Shubham.
The boy lives in the Silicon Valley suburb of Santa Clara, just minutes away from Intel headquarters.
After the “Braigo” — a name that combines Braille and Lego — won numerous awards and enthusiastic support from the blind community, Banerjee started Braigo Labs last summer with an initial US$35,000 (RM125,600) investment from his dad.
“We as parents started to get involved more, thinking that he was on to something and this innovation process had to continue,” says his father, Niloy Banerjee, an engineer who works for Intel.
Shubham used the money to build a more sophisticated version of his Lego-based printer using an off-the-shelf desktop printer and a newly released Intel computer chip.
The new model, Braigo 2.0, can translate electronic text into Braille before printing.
Intel executives were so impressed with Shubham’s printer that in November they invested an undisclosed sum in his start-up.
Intel officials believe he’s the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture capital, money invested in exchange for a financial stake in the company.
“He’s solving a real problem, and he wants to go off and disrupt an existing industry. And that’s really what it’s all about,” says Edward Ross, director of Inventor Platforms at Intel.
Braigo Labs is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on Shubham’s ideas.
The company aims to have a prototype ready for blind organisations to test this summer and have a Braigo printer on the market later this year, Niloy Banerjee says.
“This Braille printer is a great way for people around the world who really don’t have many resources at all to learn Braille and to use it practically,” says Henry Wedler, who is blind and working on a doctorate in chemistry at the University of California, Davis.
Wedler has become an adviser to Braigo Labs.
An affordable printer would allow visually impaired readers to print out letters, household labels, shopping lists and short reading materials on paper in Braille, says Lisamaria Martinez, community services director at the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind, a non-profit centre that serves the visually impaired and prints Braille materials for public agencies.
“I love the fact that a young person is thinking about a community that is often not thought about,” says Martinez, who is visually impaired.
Shubham is too young to be chief executive officer (CEO) of his own company, so his mother has taken the job, though she admits she wasn’t too supportive when he started the project.
“I’m really proud of Shubham. What he has thought, I think most adults should have thought about it,” Malini Banerjee says.
“And coming out of my 13-year-old, I do feel very proud.”
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Boy, 13, builds Braille printer with Legos, starts company
By TERENCE CHeeAssociatid Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – N' Silicon Valley, it’s nev'r too earlee ta becum un entrepreneur. Jes ast 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. T' Californy eighth-grad'r has launchet a cumpny ta develop loe-cost machines ta...