Open Source BRAIGO Printer!

BRAIGO Braille Printer
by tibet2014

With the price of a standard Braille printer costing two thousand dollars we can understand the excitement of a young person's invention, BRAIGO...a Lego-made Braille printer. This $350 Lego plotter was modified to a Braille printer by a 7th grade Californian while using his Lego Mindstorms EV-3 kit ($349) plus an add-on from Home Depot ($5).

Shubham Banerjee, the young inventor, has released his invention as an open-source project so others can contribute to it. How exciting considering the fact modern assistive technology is expensive; cost to manufacture Braille embossers is high and there are small production volumes. Allowing engineers and others to build upon his ideas is wonderful.

 So many people in developing countries do not have affordable printing methods for their sight-impaired users. Maybe the future holds an affordable option with this initial Braigo project growing
to a usable solution/piece of equipment in the future. Instead of holes in the paper with 10-15 seconds per letter, the new work will resemble dots similar to Braille printing, and ultimately an entire page of text scanned and converted to a Braille-type page.

WOW!

What does the future hold? Support education for all people. One never knows where the next idea will come? One never knows where the next solution to any universal concern will be created!

Will we someday see his invention in Tibet at Kiki's Kids? That would be helpful since Braille books cost so much money to purchase! Want to help, check out the "About the Author" page so you can do so.

 tibet2014 | April 7, 2014 at 4:04 am | Tags:
#blind, Braigo, #Braille, Kiki's Kids, printers | Categories: BRAIGO Braille
printer, Education, Global Roots, Kiki's Kids | URL: http://wp.me/p4szQq-1j

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