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Meet a Middle School Innovator: California Teen Builds Prototype for Braille Printer with Legos (video)

A Silicon Valley teenager is proving it's never too early to become an entrepreneur. Shubham Banerjee of Santa Clara asked his parents how blind people read, and when they told him to Google it, he became fascinated with Braille. But he couldn't believe that Braille printers cost $2,000 or more. Set out to change things, the eighth grader built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year. He launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille. Intel was so impressed with Shubham's lego printer, the company invested in his startup. To read further, please visit
http://abc7.com/technology/california-teen-builds-prototype-for-braille-printer-with-legos/486737/. To read further, see images and additional videos, please visit Shubham’s company website at http://sociotechnocrat.kinja.com/12-year-old-develops-low-cost-braille-printer-with-lego-1515215252.

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