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Boy genius builds braille printer from Lego
The next time your kid is whiling away the hours with bits of Lego, leave him be.
There`s a good chance that Shubham Banerjee, a California seventh grader, did the same before he created a braille printer out of Lego for a science fair project.
Braille printers cost about $2,000 but Banerjee`s comes in at around $350.
That`s what he paid for a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit along with a few dollars of hardware from Home Depot, cnet.com reported.
It says Banerjee took a basic, pre-existing pattern for a printer and reworked it with new software and hardware enhancements to print out letters in braille.
Braigo - Braille Printer made from Lego Mindstorms EV3 (Part 2 - Demo) - YouTube
The Braigo's controller is set up to scroll through the alphabet, cnet explains. You choose a letter and it prints it out with tactile bumps on a roll of calculator paper. The print head is actually a thumbtack, which Banerjee settled on after also testing a small drill bit and a mechanical pencil.
Banerjee, who has relatives in Toronto, has also been featured on CNN, CBC, National Public Radio.
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Boy genius builds braille printer from Lego | World | News | Toronto Sun
The next time your kid is whiling away the hours with bits of Lego, leave him be.
There`s a good chance that Shubham Banerjee, a California seventh grader, did the same before he created a braille printer out of Lego for a science fair project.
Braille printers cost about $2,000 but Banerjee`s comes in at around $350.
That`s what he paid for a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit along with a few dollars of hardware from Home Depot, cnet.com reported.
It says Banerjee took a basic, pre-existing pattern for a printer and reworked it with new software and hardware enhancements to print out letters in braille.
Braigo - Braille Printer made from Lego Mindstorms EV3 (Part 2 - Demo) - YouTube
The Braigo's controller is set up to scroll through the alphabet, cnet explains. You choose a letter and it prints it out with tactile bumps on a roll of calculator paper. The print head is actually a thumbtack, which Banerjee settled on after also testing a small drill bit and a mechanical pencil.
Banerjee, who has relatives in Toronto, has also been featured on CNN, CBC, National Public Radio.
Read more from here
Boy genius builds braille printer from Lego | World | News | Toronto Sun
