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It's interesting that you mention that. Yesterday I was visiting the neighboring teaching lab and a student was working on making a cheap braille reader. They were using a series of parallel rods that can slide up and down.

Here's a (poor) rendition of how it works: http://mondrian.io/?p=NlAQ8x



India would be a good place to test it: "Of the 37 million people across the globe who are blind, over 15 million are from India."(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-has-largest-b...)


As someone who is totally blind I would be interested in this if it ever got to a somewhat usable prototype stage.




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