Legos are much more than just toys; now they can help the visually impaired.
Image:The toy company has supplied the world with more than 600 billion tiny plastic bricks—about 80 for each inhabitant of the Earth. Used under terms of “Fair Use“
Shubham Banerjee, a seventh-grade student from California, has developed a low-cost fully functional Braille printer using Lego Mindstoms EV3. It is essentially a Lego robot built to let sight impaired folks to benefit from computer technology at a reasonable price.
Best of all, this young man intends to make his invention freely accessible (open source) to all.
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