You probably may have already heard of this 12 year old genius who has been making waves in the technology world for his invention that will be a boon to millions of blind people. Shubham Banerjee, a 7th grader from Santa Clara, CA has designed a portable printer using the Lego Mindstorms EV3 – an educational Lego kit that teaches various electronics/robotics concepts to children. His design is very simple (I am sure it wasn’t so simple to come up with the idea though!) – the Mindstorm brick is programmed to accept letters A – Z and space. The brick is connected to a print head that accepts input and punches the braille equivalent of the input letter on paper. This is a proof of concept that just shows how easily a portable braille printer (that runs on battery) can be assembled at home with utmost ease. Currently at its most basic form (prints only letters A – Z), Shubham is already working on version 2.0 of “Braigo” that will print more characters and do a lot more. Braigo was recently praised a lot by the “champion of change” Henry “Hoby” Wedler, who made it very clear that this is [...]