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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