Thursday, December 9, 2021

Micro:bit braille text messaging | Send and Receive


The project consists of a gadget that enables blind people to exchange texts using the brail method, it combines two parts. The first part is the sender; a Brail keyboard that enables them to write a word, then send it via radio technology. It also has the option of cancelling the message. To make this exchange possible, we have used three microbit cards because the number of connectors in each card is insufficient to construct a full keyboard; every alphabetic character has an equivalent in the Brail keyboard, which is linked to a mini micro lockless button. This button has two connectors, one is linked to GND, the other to the pin in the microbit.

 

The second part is concerned with the reception of the text message; the constructed gadget enables the receiver to read the word letter by letter, based on a matrix composed of six mini solenoids push pull 5 Volts. For example, if the character is “B”, we activate the two solenoids linked to pin 14 and pin 1. We used a specific button to go from one character to another. We should note that it is possible to read full words if we had the means to install five receptive matrixes instead of one. We also used one more optional microbit that shows the received text in alphabetical letters.


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