Projets:BrailleRap

Project description

Braille Rap is an experimental project that makes you able to turn a 3D printer into a Braille embosser machine.

BrailleRap – The concept

BrailleRap is a 3D printer hack to emboss Braille on paper or cardboard (even on plastic sheets of about 100 microns).

It was develop in less than 3 days during the Fabrikarium, a hackathon organized by My Human Kit with Airbus SAS, by a volunteer team composed of:

   Hugues Aubin, MyHumanKit manager,
   Arthur Masson, member of IDLV,
   Damien Canac, Saint Gobain team,
   Simon Descarpentries, computer science engineer, manager of Acoeuro.com
   Yassine El Yacoubi, BNP Paribas
   Élodie Fourment, student at Airbus highschool
   Arezki Gastaud, ballet dancer and computer science engineer at via CapGemini,
   François Le Berre, Airbus Safran, space observation R&D

You need a 3D printer capable of reading gcode (for example a reprap) in order to test of improve this prototype.

The concept is simple: we will first print a 3D nozzle for our printer to hold a customized nail. This object will convert our 3D printer to a Braille embosser.

A dedicated webpage enables to compute the required gcode to move the head to emboss our text.