[NFB-Braille-Discussion] History of perkins brailler

[Josh Kennedy]

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> On Dec 13, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Jasmyn Po <jazzyep94 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Does everyone think I made the right decision to learn Braille? 2 Reasons Why I am learning Braille is because I plan to be a paraeducator for the visually impaired and I have glaucoma in both of my eyes so I want to prepare in case glaucoma takes my vision.
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> On Fri, 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
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> 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:
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> > 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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