BrailleBand/BrailleDuino

2010 May 5

BrailleBand/BrailleDuino is a project presentin a concept of a Braille reader, using micro-actuators and a shape-memory band or “a rather special sheet that emboss on the fly braille characters”. The blog post details how the first prototype was developed using Arduino and LEDs to build the encoder functionalities. The prototype is interesting, but I’m more intrigued by the details of the mechanism as found on the following picture.

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http://www.epokh.org/blog/?p=235

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