12-year-old Shubham Banerjee Creates a Braille Printer
Shubham Banerjee, a 12-year-old student from California, has created what he calls a Braigo: a Braille printer made from Legos. And get this, it's fully functional and less than a sixth of the cost of factory-made Braille printers.
Banerjee, who lives in Santa Clara, was struck by the amount of visually impaired people who have little to no access to technology. He wondered how they read and how they might write.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 285 million people are visually impaired and more than 90% of those people live in developing countries. Banerjee, who once told his mother that he would like to give Braille printers to the visually impaired, spent over a month fitting lego pieces together to create the Braigo (pictured below).
Braille printers cost upwards of $2,000, whereas Banerjee's settles in around $350. He open sourced building instructions, created instructional YouTube videos because, as he says, "I think I'm doing something that could actually help people."
With 90% of the visually impaired worldwide living in the developing countries, a braille printer that costs one sixth of a traditional one, is definitely an invention that will surely going to positively impact a lot of lives.
Subham Banerjee, a seventh grader who lives in Santa Clara, California, has come up with an innovative braille printer made with Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit that costs $349…