[NFB-Braille-Discussion] History of perkins brailler

[Josh Kennedy]

But yes, you did make the right decision to learn braille. And if your vision is going to be lost anyway, better learn as much as you can now, so you can keep reading whether you have your vision or not. 

Josh


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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
> 
> 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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