Francesca Cain’s Status Report for October 4th

This week, I helped Abby to finalize the slides provided for our design presentation, and we thought further about how we are gong to model and implement our final design. In the days leading up to our design presentation, we decided to not go the route of motorizing a pre-fabricated part bought from Amazon. Instead, we will be using a custom built pin-dropping mechanism, using small motors, to emboss the labels. Since a braille character has two columns with three rows, the mechanism will use only three pins with actuators to print labels. Going forward into next week, since our design is now finalized, the real work is able to begin of interacting with Tesseract and checking its reliability, finalizing hardware orders, and making contact with the Office of Disability Resources and the Western PennsylvaniaSchool for Blind Children