[NFB-Braille-Discussion] History of perkins brailler

[Josh Kennedy]

I do not have a smart brailler. They are nearly $2000 and I do not need one. If you want a brailler you can write fast on that makes jumbo braille, then get the large cell electric brailler from perkins products for around $995 or so.

Josh


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> On Dec 13, 2019, at 3:44 PM, Chikodinaka mr. Oguledo <chikodinaka.2girls at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> smart brailler do u have a smart brailler I am blind I read all kinds
> of braille. jumbal braille is good for my fingers  what about the
> smart brailler
> 
>> On 12/7/19, Jasmyn Po via NFB-Braille-Discussion
>> <nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I really like the Braille sense a lot! :-) right now I really like the slate
>> and stylus and Braille writer
>> 
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>>  On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 5:46 PM, Josh Kennedy<joshknnd1982 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:   My favorite braille device is the braille display, because it can
>> show me any braille I want, instantly. And it is very portable. And the
>> braille me and orbit reader are the most affordable displays out there right
>> now. The braille writer is my next favorite. And I like the slate and stylus
>> for taking notes on paper, anywhere, with a nice small portable and quiet
>> device. But if I want to write a lot of braille on paper and I don't care
>> about noise, the brailler is what i use.
>> Josh
>> 
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>> On Dec 7, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Jasmyn Po <jazzyep94 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Which Braille writing device is your favorite? The slate and stylus, the
>> Braille writer, or the Braille display? I like the slate and stylus because
>> I could practice my Braille anywhere without having to worry about carrying
>> a heavy Braille writer. I do have a braille writer but I haven't been able
>> to use it a lot because go to school  and the only way I have to practice my
>> Braille it is with the slate and stylus.
>> 
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>>  On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 2:28 PM, Josh Kennedy via
>> NFB-Braille-Discussion<nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:   Hi,
>> I read the articles about the history of the perkins brailler. But none of
>> the articles mention the electric brailler. They only mention the classic
>> perkins and the next generation 2011 or so braillers. So what happened to
>> the electric perkins brailler? When was it invented? If my memory is
>> correct, from the brief time I used an electric brailler back in 2011, it
>> requires much less force, than even the new next generation braillers. It's
>> like writing with a braille display keyboard. But when was the electric
>> brailler invented? I vaguely remember seeing one back in 1986 or so, when I
>> was 4 or 5 years old at my school district's intermediate unit, IU, the
>> place where I first learned braille. But my teacher of the visually impaired
>> never let me use the electric brailler even though it was there and I saw
>> the power cord and on/off switch and I wished I could use it, but could not.
>> I liked using the electric brailler back in mid 2011 to take a math test at
>> Lions world. It was different than my manual brailler and I could braille a
>> lot faster with it. And it kind of sounded like a slower version of a
>> braille embosser/printer. Oh and I really liked that all the dots came out
>> consistently because a motor was probably used to punch the dots. I miss
>> using that brailler. I wish I knew more about its history. My 12-year-old
>> son who is sighted knows the basics of braille and how to use a brailler,
>> even though he only spent two hours with the manual brailler. He can write
>> some grade 1 braille that I taught to him. I wonder if he would like playing
>> with an electric brailler if I bought one? But before I get one, I'll get a
>> braille me display by innovision in February because I hear they have
>> greatly improved since I had a prototype back in early to mid 2018. And
>> since I read in church on sundays sometimes, if I ever needed a paper
>> braille copy of the readings, from all the research I have done, an electric
>> brailler would let me braille them out faster--even though I would need to
>> read off the computer and transcribe them myself. It would only be 4 or 5
>> pages at most, of braille.
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
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