TactNote is a project made for MakeHarvard Hackathon
Currently only offered as a web interface (Mobile + Siri/google voice support to follow).
The web interface allows anyone who can use a computer to send a greeting card and a picture to someone who is blind/visually impaired.
The building blocks:
- Web interface and signup form (HTML/CSS)
- AWS
- A python program to translate text into arrays of 0's and 1's representing braille
- A Python program which takes a picture as input, queries Microsoft vision API, and returns a textual description of what's in the image
- A python script that takes an array of arrays of 0's and 1's (representing braille) and converts it into a 3D braille model.
We used blender to mock the 3D model and Blender API to generate the 3D file
The file can then be sent to a 3D printer and a doubly sided greeting card will be printed:
- One side of the card is the description of the picture in braille
- The other side is the actual greeting in braille