{"id":17713,"date":"2017-10-18T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17713"},"modified":"2017-10-17T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:55:57","slug":"braille-reading-device-powered-by-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17713","title":{"rendered":"Braille-reading device powered by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/brailleboxhardware.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17714\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/brailleboxhardware.gif?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hitherejoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Birch<\/a>&#8216;s family is predisposed to failing eyesight. As a result, he decided to build the BrailleBox &#8211; a motorised <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braille\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braille<\/a> creation device which reads in online news stories and converts them into patterns for the blind. Solenoids were used to project upwards small wooden balls into the patterns which represent letters. The software end uses <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/things\/hardware\/raspberrypi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AndroidThings<\/a>. The main script runs on start-up and a button press is detected which triggers the retrieval of a news item and the automatic translation.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BrailleBox Demo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X8CVIcUoJls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/braillebox-android-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanks to Raspberry Pi for spotting this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Birch&#8216;s family is predisposed to failing eyesight. As a result, he decided to build the BrailleBox &#8211; a motorised Braille creation device which reads in online news stories and converts them into patterns for the blind. Solenoids were used&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17713\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,50,39,45],"tags":[546],"class_list":["post-17713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-making","category-programming","category-robotics","tag-braille"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Braille-reading device powered by a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17713\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Braille-reading device powered by a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joe Birch&#8216;s family is predisposed to failing eyesight. 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