BrailleBox: Braille News Display @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi
From the accessibility files: Joe Birch has built a DIY device that can transpose online text to Braille. He calls it the BrailleBox. Here’s more via RaspberryPi.org
Braille is a symbol system for people with visual impairment which represents letters and numbers as raised points. Commercial devices that dynamically produce Braille are very expensive, so Joe decided to build a low-cost alternative that is simple to recreate.
News API is a tool for fetching JSON metadata from over 70 online news sources. You can use it to integrate headlines or articles into websites and text-based applications.
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