[BRLTTY] project brailletouch very low cost braille screen

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It's amazing how expensive assistive technology is. A small flagil braille
display costs more than $ 1,200 USD and a good quality one goes from $
3,000 to $ 6,000. That is why I am developing an open source project. This
is by no means a finished product. Being an open source project, I hope
others will improve the design. In the near future, with the help of
volunteers, Brailletouch will reduce the cost of a braille display by 90%
and allow anyone who is visually impaired or deafblind to read and write
braille, as well as use a computer or mobile device efficiently. and
without noise. So if you know someone, if you are a creator, if you are
curious or if you want to help, feel free to enter our repository
https://github.com/brailletouch/Brailletouch and help me build a community
around Brailletouch.
The encoder is practically the heart of the braille display. Most
commercial braille displays have 40 or 80 braille cells. Since the most
expensive on a braille display is braille cells, which cost more than $ 35
each, we are designing a new form of braille display with 40 virtual cells
and a single physical braille cell, reducing most of the cost. . We are
talking about a braille cell that can be made from 3D printed parts, I
designed a different system. Instead of activating 40 cells at the same
time and applying all the power to 40 physical cells, Brailletouch uses a
physical encoder and a virtual braille display of 40 touch sensors placed
in a matrix. In this way, the braille text is gradually displayed in a
single braille cell as the virtual cells are touched. Parts can be easily
printed.

My braille display design succeeds in reducing the cost of a braille
display by over 90%. Currently, a braille screen has a cost between $ 1200
and $ 6000, being $ 1200 the smallest and most fragile, my proposal seeks
to achieve a braille screen that can be manufactured between 100 and $ 150,
it could even be much cheaper when making production mass. Basically, we
could have a screen at an affordable price for all visually impaired and
deafblind people.

My project is open source. The idea is to make available to anyone anywhere
in the world a code that can be modified and improved, files for 3D
printers to print their parts and an assembly manual, so that anyone can
download, print, assemble and use

Its development is based on an esp32 microcontroller. (What is open source
hardware)

I do this because I am looking for support if you can support or meet
someone who can support with the following needs:

Microcontroller Programmer

Diceño in 3d

Handling the HiD protocol (we need to create the code for the Esp-32 to
communicate with the breille HID)

Language translator

Documentation development

Economical support

Any company or organization that finances the project.


If you can support some of these needs or know someone who can do it or an
organization that can financially finance the project, I would be very
grateful if you could contact me at +584129994784

OUR REPOSITORY
https://github.com/brailletouch/brailletouch
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