Scott

I believe the cells are made by hand.

In some of the designs the pins are set by hand, in others they use piaso 
electric materials.

On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Scott Howell wrote:

> Ture, but I was using that for illustrative purposes. There is no question 
> those little buggers cost a chunk for sure. I have no idea how they are 
> produced, but probably takes some special equipment. I wonder if I could find 
> an article on how Braille cells are made, hmmmm think I shall Google it. :)
> You do make a good point about Braille literacy, which it seems Braille is 
> sort of dying a slow death or so some stats say. 
> 
> 
> On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> Actually try maybe a few hundred per cell but you do make a good oint. If 
>> only we had all blind  and vi people reading  braille then we would  have a 
>> higher demand for braille desplays lol!
> 
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