{"id":9586,"date":"2014-05-09T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T09:11:30","slug":"raspberrypi-brings-hope-to-indias-visually-impaired-with-a-braille-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"#RaspberryPi brings hope to India&#8217;s visually impaired with a Braille robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e.fastcompany.net\/multisite_files\/fastcompany\/imagecache\/inline-large\/inline\/2014\/05\/3030149-inline-dsc0079.jpg?resize=560%2C371\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A team of computer science students from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bits-pilani.ac.in\/\">BITS Pilani<\/a>&#8216;s Goa campus, led by Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastava, wanted to help visually impaired people in India by teaching them Braille. However, most Braille teaching machines cost in excess of \u00a34000. So, they set about creating something that would solve the problem but at a fraction of the price. They took a Raspberry Pi and wrote some Python script which reads in speech, interprets it into text and then produces the Braille pattern of each letter on a set of 6 pegs\u00a0that push up or pull down as necessary. The system is called Project Mudra and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectmudra.com\/\">read more about it here<\/a>. 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