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12-Year-Old Builds Lego Braille Printer
An anonymous reader writes "Shubham Banerjee, a seventh grader in California, has developed a braille printer made from a $350 Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit and some simple hardware. He calls the science fair project the Braigo. 'The Braigo's controller is set up to scroll through the alphabet. 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. The first prototype isn't terribly fast, but it proves the concept works. Banerjee is working on improvements that will allow it to print full pages of text.'"
...software matters, and this kid has NONE
Read the fucking article dipshit:
"He took a basic, preexisting pattern for a printer and reworked it with new software and hardware enhancements to print out letters in braille"
Anyways, my point is this: frankly, the twelve year old kid is far better than you, you pathetic little pimpstick.