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Aiding the Visually Impaired: Developing an efficient Braille Printer
With the large number of partially or completely visually impaired persons in
society, their integration as productive, educated and capable members of
society is hampered heavily by a pervasively high level of braille illiteracy.
This problem is further compounded by the fact that braille printers are
prohibitively expensive - generally starting from two thousand US dollars,
beyond the reach of the common man. Over the period of a year, the authors have
tried to develop a Braille printer which attempts to overcome the problems
inherent in commercial printers. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to
introduce two prototypes - the first with an emphasis of cost-effectiveness,
and the second prototype, which is more experimental and aims to eliminate
several demerits of Braille printing. The first prototype has been constructed
at a cost significantly less than the existing commercial braille printers.
Both the prototypes of the device have been constructed, which will be shown.Comment: 6 pages. IEEE accepted paper (not published yet) International
Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
(ICACCI-2017