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Abstract
Visually impaired people face difficulties in interacting and gaining full advantage of
computers and technologies. Recently, and with the fast evolution in technology, researchers
proposed to give the blinds the ability to take advantage of these advancements. Accordingly, this
paper introduces a new communication channel for visually impaired people. This project
introduces simple design for a braille, comprising a design aims to produce a device
that perform vibrations in six position of visual impaired person hand.it include a twoway communication system that convert a braille system to digitalized form and the reverse that
converts a text in to a braille system using a motor vibrator which is in the form of a braille
system. Which the blind person can recognise.it also used a sound system that converts the
characters in to sound system.
Table of Contents
Abstract ....1
Introduction and Background..4
Problem Statement..7
Motivation6
Objective...8
Methodology....9
Deliverable...12
Resource Requirement and Cost Breakdown.13
Tentative Project Plan....14
References...15
List of figures
figure 1 structure of braille cell
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List of Table
Table 1 project cost breakdown 14
Table 2 tentative time plan 13
Problem Statement
Due to the lack of vision, the blind people cannot easily access the latest information
and technologies. Modern technological enhancements cannot be easily affordable to
the visually impaired people because of their higher cost and the less portability. That is
why it has become pretty necessary to develop a low cost, portable and a fast Braille
System for the visually impaired people.
This project introduces new design for a braille, comprising a design aims to
produce a product to perform vibrations in six position of blind person right hand. A
low cost and robust design will provide the blind with an affordable and reliable tool
also it produces the simple technique for reading and writing braille for visual impaired
person.
Motivation
our motivation is that we real have the passion to help the visual impaired people to
be advantages on the technologies since they use braille system as a main source of
formal communication. so we have decided to make the braille system digitalized and
to make much more easy for the visual impaired person to read and write. And also to
make our project low cost which is affordable and easy to use and handle.
Objective
In this project The general problem we are going to solve is that due to the lack of
sight, the blind people cannot easily access the latest information and the technologies.
Modern technological enhancements cannot be easily affordable to the visually
impaired people because of their higher cost and the less portability. That is why it has
become pretty necessary to develop a low cost and portable writing and reading Braille
System for the visually impaired people.
This project introduces new design for a braille writing and reading, the design aims
to produce a product that reads text from computer and change it to braille equivalent
and perform vibrations in six position of blind person right hand. the vibration
proceeds with some interval of time until the end of the text. it also has a writing
technique using pad or push buttons so the blind person can write by switching the
buttons using a braille system and the device can interpret the braille writing in to a text
form that the receiver can understand. In order to avoid spelling error the device
produce a sound to announce the typed letter. A low cost and robust design will
provide the visual impaired people with an affordable and reliable tool.
Methodology
The project generally has software and hardware parts so it is divided into two
phases. Phase one involves the programing and simulation of the project. phase two is
the construction of hardware and delivering a working prototype.
Phase one it is mainly the programing part. The programing is done in C using
Arduino integrated development environment(IDE). this is subdivided into
Stage 1. programing the conversion of input text to brailleThis involves accepting the data(text) from the serial device and process it by
microcontroller and produce a different combination of values on the relay. The relay
intern drives the vibrating motor to produce braille combination for English alphabet,
numbers and special characters and create vibration on the finger of the visual impaired
person.
Stage 2. programming the conversion of braille input to text this involves accepting the
different combination of input from the braille pad (6 push buttons) and process it by
microcontroller and translates it into text. In order to avoid typing error speaker spell
out the typed alphabetic letter.
Stage 3.the construction of the circuits and simulate the devices using simulating
software.
second phase involves the hardware construction for the device.
Power
supply
comput
er
Serial port The serial communication between device and computer is established
using RS-232 cable and MAX232 chip.RS-232 is a standard for serial communication
transmission of data. It formally defines the signals connecting between a DTE (data
terminal equipment) such as a computer terminal, and a DCE (data circuit-terminating
equipment or data communication equipment), such as a modem.
MAX232 is a 16 pin IC which is used to interface the external I/O device to
microcontroller. Here it interfaces the microcontroller and the computer for effective
communication through RS232 cable.
in case of Arduino Uno there is built in chip that can control the serial communication
between microcontroller and the computer through the Universal Serial Bus (USB).so
instead of RS232 cable we use USB cable.
Vibrator motor
it is the main component in this project. It consists of 6 relays (or transistor)
connected to the I/O port of the controller via driver circuit. Relays are on/off
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according to the input from microcontroller. As per the received the motor set to
vibration for specific period of time. Thus the blind person will be able to sense the
braille letter.
Writing pad
The braille translator has a dual purpose of converting braille text into words and
text to braille. The writing is done using the writing pad.it consists of six push buttons i
similar to the braille patterns. The visual impaired person put braille letter for English
alphabet by pushing those buttons.
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Deliverables
At the end of the academic year, we will come with a complete standalone combo
device with a capability of translating text to braille and braille input to text.it also have
voice assistance for spell checking while writing. this device is robust and provide to be
helpful in the future and it will be available in low cost which easy to use by any visual
impaired person.
equipment required
Multimeter
Oscilloscope
Soldiering equipment
Personal computer
Programing and simulating software
at hand
at hand
Items
LPC2148
RS232 CABLE
MAX232 Chip
Vibrator motor
Relay
Speaker
Push buttons
Arduino Uno board
Quantity
1
1
1
6
6
1
6
1
price in dollar
24
20
10
29
25
20
10
50
188
Total
Table 1 project cost breakdown
Activity
Time period
Proposal writing
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Phase one
Stage one
Stage two
Stage three
November 1 to November 29
December 1 to January 1
January 1-jannary 15
Phase two
1 semester (march-June)
Table 2
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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