Who: Shubham
Banerjee
Where: California,
USA
What: Developed a low cost Braille
Printer
When: 23
February 2014
Why: To
help the blinds
A 12 year old boy of
Indian Origin Shubham Banerjee developed a low cost Braille Printer on 23
February 2014.
By
using a 350 dollar LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set, he had developed a Braille Printer
to help blinds.
The
invention was named as Braigo, a mash-up of Braille and LEGO. Users can type in
letters, and the Braigo’s needle will hammer out the translated message in
raised dots on paper.
LEGO
Mindstorms EV3 is a remarkably powerful and functional robotics kit people of
any age can use to build some impressive and complicated projects.
About
Braille Printer
Braille
printers receive data from computer devices and emboss that information in
Braille onto paper through the use of solenoids that control embossing
pins.
Braille
printers typically print on heavyweight paper and use up more pages for the
same amount of information than pages printed on a regular printer.
They are also slower and noisier. Inter-point
printers are Braille printers that emboss Braille on both sides of a page. The
price of a Braille printer is directly related to the volume of Braille it
produces.
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