Blog giving information about the low-cost open source BudgetBrailler Project
It s been a while. I have Crohn s Disease and had a rough start to the year, then got distracted making Danny Lum s Mini Bowling Alley (which is an a fully working 5.5ft bowling alley with a pinsetter and everything). Things I have accomplished: Hopefully more updates soon! -Jost
Based on the feedback I received from the Clovernook Center and ideas I had before passing off the prototype, I have 4 goals currently. Paper feeding is tricky so I m going to cheat. I ordered some tractor feed braille paper, which will be much easier to control. For those that don t know, tractor paper is [ ]
Last month I left my precious prototype of the BudgetBrailler, a low-cost open-source brailler I have been working on for the past year, with the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired for user testing. A big thanks to everyone involved in the user test and for the feedback that was provided. I m very [ ]
The first post on the blog got an unbelievable amount of interest and I wanted to address some common questions about the project. For the rest of this post I will shorten BudgetBrailler to BB because I m lazy. Do I know braille? Nope. My first exposure to the blind community came last year and I [ ]
At Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) 2024 I met the non-profit group See3D, a group which sources 3D prints from volunteers for distribution to blind/visually impaired people. At their booth they had a Perkins Brailler on display. At the time I simply thought it was interesting to see, but it lived at the back of my [ ]