Two Bristol teenage brothers build a £100 Braille printer inspired by their blind grandfather, win international award and plan to make the design free for everyone
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Two brothers from Bristol have won international recognition for developing a portable Braille printer that can be built for around £100, offering a more affordable way to produce printed material for blind and partially sighted people.
Tom Hunt, 19, and his younger brother Felix, 16, created the device, called BrailleGo!, after becoming aware of the difficulties people and organisations face in accessing Braille documents.
Their grandfather, a Yorkshire-born engineer who contributed to the early development of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, lost his sight in his sixties, helping inspire their
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Two brothers from Bristol have won international recognition for developing a portable Braille printer that can be built for around £100, offering a more affordable way to produce printed material for blind and partially sighted people.
Tom Hunt, 19, and his younger brother Felix, 16, created the device, called BrailleGo!, after becoming aware of the difficulties people and organisations face in accessing Braille documents.
Their grandfather, a Yorkshire-born engineer who contributed to the early development of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, lost his sight in his sixties, helping inspire their