shafi231181 On Sep 29, 2014 10:32 AM, "muruganandan.k" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sivakumar S <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:05:04 +0530 > Subject: IIT students developing low-cost portable Braille printer > To: > > In a bid to make technology affordable and accessible to people with vision > disabilities, Sandeep Konam, a B. Tech. final-year ECE student at Indian > Institutes of Technology (IIT), Idupulapaya, and a group of IITians are > engaged in not only developing a low-cost portable Braille printer that > could cost as much as an average Android mobile but also in integrating > graphics, tables and images in Indian languages. > > Mr. Konam and other B. Tech. students -- P. Laksh Kumar, V. Shakti Priyan, > Ayushman Talwar, Amera Ali, Aparna Hariharan, Sai Revanth Tadepalli, Syed > Junaid Ahmed and Rohith Sirpa -- from diverse branches such as design, > electronics, mechanical and computer science from IITs and NITs across > India, demonstrated a prototype at a workshop titled "ReDx: Engineering the > Eye" at Hyderabad recently. A portable working model of a Braille printer > was expected to be optimised by December this year, Mr. Konam said. > > Mentored by Elliott J. Rouse, Post-Doctoral Associate of Biomechatronics > Group, MIT Media Lab, and assisted by premier institutions such as L.V. > Prasad Eye Institute Innovation Centre, Cyient (formerly Infosys) and the > Tata Centre for Technology and Design, the low-cost Braille printer, a > counterpart to ink printers, using solenoids to control the embossing pins, > could revolutionize the facility for people who are blind and low vision. > "Developing a prototype that can be used in open source community and > qualitative enough to meet the needs of people with vision disabilities is > our goal," says Mr. Konam. "We have hacked a vinyl cutter and > reverse-engineered it for usability as Braille printer." > > Source: Hindu > > > > -- > "THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATRED, BUT INDIFFERENCE" > MURUGANANDAN.K > Ph.D Scholar, > Department of English, > Pondicherry University, > puducherry-14 > mobile:+919787871008. > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
