Inspiration
Communication with blind relatives was quite difficult for us, leading to this development.
What it does
It allows visually impaired individuals to receive haptic feedback in the form of braille communication.
How we built it
We combined front-end UI made using python, which invokes an HTML code; with the Raspberry Pi Pico, which is our backend device.
Challenges we ran into
Simultaneous compilation was a major challenge, setting us behind in the development process and preventing us from achieving our secondary goal of reverse communication.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to convert text to braille, meaning we can convert any passage with letters from the English alphabet, along with the periods, commas, and spaces; into a system that the blind can understand.
What we learned
We learned about development in braille, the simultaneous execution of programs, the use of backend servers, creative approaches to representing braille characters, and more.
What's next for BrailleFlow
We want to make this into a neat, compact, mass-scalable device. We want to be able to deploy our programs onto the web, and we want to upgrade our device so it can do reverse conversion from braille inputs to english character outputs.
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