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Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 |
June 19, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Phil Sneiderman 443-287-9960 [email protected] |
- Additional Images -
Photos by Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University
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| PHOTO D: Steven Booth of the National Federation of the Blind, which sponsored the design project, tests the students' prototype of a handheld low-cost Braille writer. |
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| PHOTO E: The user depresses buttons to set up the pattern of pins that make Braille indentations on paper. |
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| PHOTO F: This Braille writer, which can produce up to six indentations in a cell at once, works more quickly than a stylus, which can only make one indentation at a time. |
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| PHOTO G: These six buttons can produce Braille dot patterns corresponding to letters, numbers and punctuation marks. |
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| PHOTO H: Six steel pins on the bottom of the writer make the Braille indentations on paper. |
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| PHOTO I: At a recent ceremony Johns Hopkins student inventors Peter Lillehoj, Emily Kumpel, Penny Robinson and Mark MacLeod presented their prototype to a representative of the National Federation of the Blind, which sponsored the project. |
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| PHOTO J: Emily Kumpel |
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| PHOTO K: Peter Lillehoj |
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| PHOTO L: Mark MacLeod |
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| PHOTO M: Penny Robinson |
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