This Seventh Grader Invented A Braille Printer Using Just A Lego Set

The children are our future.

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In case you weren't feeling useless enough as it is, this seventh grader has managed to accomplish more in his 12 years of existence than you ever will. In this video, pre-teen Subham Banarjee demonstrates how he modified a $350 Mindstorms LEGO set into a fully functional braille printer he's calling the Braigo.

And he's not only smart, he's techno-utopian, too. Banarjee is making both the instructions and software available to the Internet for anyone to similarly turn their plastic bricks into a printer. 

[via Gawker]

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