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12-year-old builds low-cost Lego braille printer

• alecsmart1 13y ago
  This is truly interesting. It's amazing how Mindstorms can be used to develop it. I'm not sure how practical it will be as the author has mentioned it's currently capable of printing 1 char/5-7 seconds. So that might be too slow. But kudos to him to develop a solution; to think out of the box. Kudos to Lego to offer a tool to let dreamers build.
• daurnimator 13y ago
  hmmm, I was imagining something entirely different: Moving lego block around to create a tactile braille 'screen'. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_Braille_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_Braille_display ) Making one of those from lego blocks would actually be a really cool project; and can probably be done for way under the cost of a real one.
• 97s 13y ago
  At 12 I was playing Diablo II like it was going out of style. Oh how our minds are wasted. GJ kid, bright future in store for you.