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10 Portable Braille e-Book Reader
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 Mingjie Wang
Rajarshi Roy
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Current commercially available electronic Braille readers (aka refreshable Braille displays [RBDs] ) are expensive (prices range from $3,000 to $15,000) and cumbersome (smallest readers are the size of paperback novels while larger ones are the size of keyboards).

Our RBD will be cheap (cost in the range of $200) and portable (size of cell phones) so that users can carry it in their pockets. It will also improve upon the current Braille cell form-factor, using a rotatable belt instead of static cells so as to enable a smoother reading experience. The RBD will primarily be a cell phone peripheral with Bluetooth connectivity; PC support will also be available.

LED Cube

Michael Lin, Raymond Yeh

LED Cube

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LED technology is more advanced and much more efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs and as such our team decided we wanted to build a device related to LEDs. An LED cube is inherently aesthetically pleasing and ours will be capable of displaying 3D animations and lighting patterns with much increased complexity compared to any 2D display of comparable resolution. Environmental interaction will also be able to control the various lighting effects on the cube. Although our plan is for a visually pleasing cube, our implementation can easily be adapted for more practical applications such as displaying 3D models.