Dual braille code translator: Basic education tool for visually impaired children

Literacy rates of visually impaired people in modern development country are being concerned nowadays. Early education for children with visual impairments is said to be one of the factors. Learning Braille is no longer a boring lesson to visually impaired children. This paper mediated a new pathway to interlink and translates inputs from keyboard into the most used Braille character automatically and enables normal visually people to have real time interaction with visually impaired person. This system also can be switches to Arabic Braille character to introduce them with Quran language. The output was able to represent each alphabet, number and Arabic letter of the Braille symbol by mechanically raising and lowering pins to create the tactile dots of Braille using solenoid. This method is a low cost, portable, and easy to operate. Experiments show that the method can effectively convert a keyboard as an input into Braille symbol.