Inspiration
The inspiration for this project arrives from my visit to a blind school. My family used to donate a bit to the blind school every month and I noticed some difficulty they face using talkback features on their phones.
289 Million people are Visually Impaired 33 Million are completely Blind ⅓ of the blind population is in INDIA
What it does
It takes the input from the visually impaired person from the IoT device in the braille language itself (the universal language for visually impaired people) and it gets into the mobile phone of the user. The Android app also speaks out the input so that the user can interact with the input.
our idea is about making a braille board that blinds can use efficiently to type sentences, communicate with anyone, play games, or even can code using this.
our idea is sustainable since there is a large number of blinds in this world and our product is making their life easier. Regarding investors, they will pay us for the production cost and the marketing costs. For customized networking, we will be collaborating with the blind schools over India. Since we cannot contact each and every blind school in India, we will take help from the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
We once visited a blind school to test our prototype in real-life conditions. And the results were impressive. Below is the link to students using it from scratch.
The present solution in the market has a lot of points lacking which our's one is having.
- Our product is much smaller in size and will weigh much lighter.
- Easy to use and adapt than the current ones which are too much difficult to use.
- compatibility with Android, ios, PC, and any other Bluetooth device. (current ones are limited to pc only)
- Price less than 1/10th of present models.
- Can be embedded in the mobile back covers as well.
How I built it
I used an Arduino nano, multiple tact buttons, bluetooth sensors and Li-Po battery. For Android Application, i used MIT application builder
Challenges I ran into
Integration of android application with popular applications like WhatsApp, google, youtube
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Testing it out on the actual audience. As I go frequently to the blind school, I took this braille board to them. And tried getting honest feedback from them. The response from them got fetched in our hearts. You can the video here https://youtu.be/jbIzWm6MsHQ
What's next for Braille Code Board
Integrating this board into the back cover of the phones to increase its mobility.
Built With
3d-modelling android Arduino Bluetooth c++ java machine-learning python
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