tomswifter/tactnote

Greeting cards for the visual impared

TactNote

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

tactnote's Issues

Great Project

Hey Tom,
I just watched the video for this project on DevPost, and I just wanted to share that I love your project. This is so sweet.
Microsoft is hosting a Student Developer Competition, Imagine Cup, and I think this project would be an incredible submission. Applications are due on April 5th - http://aka.ms/USimagineCup (You can use what you have in the devpost, and reformat it into the submission template)
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected]