Thirteen year old uses lego to make a braille printer

Shubham Banerjee, a seventh grader from Santa Clara, California, has invented a Lego Mindstorms-based Braille printer called the Braigo. The young social entrepreneur declared his intention to release his printer – which costs about $350, much less than traditional $2000+ Braille printers – for free as open source hardware, so that it can be improved by the wider developer community.

There are endless possibilities to add enhancements in software to make BRAIGO do a lot more and with improvements to the first version of the model, Banerjee hopes to give a new tool to blind institutions or even parents with visually impaired children to use this printer at a 80% savings from commercially available products out there in the market.