Braille Tweeter
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Braille Tweeter | |
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Primary Contact | Russell |
Created | 04/06/2011 |
Status | Complete |
Type | Members Project |
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This is a project to turn a cheap braille note taker, that prints on ticker tape, into a braille tweet printer.
This has it's own blog page at:
http://russelljenkinsfearn.blogspot.com/
Arduino Code
This code was taken from Russell's Blog on 06/02/2019:
/* Receives ascii bytes across the serial and displays them as braille characters. If it is a digit or string of digits it displays the 'Number' symbols first. If it is a space it operates a seperate 'Space Bar' digi pin. If it starts with a capital letter it inserts a Captial symbol first. It also send lots of stuff back, just for debugging really. */ int bitCount; // Just counts throught the braille dots int PosInAlpha = 0; // Where in the 'alphabet' below to find the brailled representation int brailled = 0; // We store the curenr representation here char inChar ; // Incoming serial byte int inByte; // The Ascii version of current character int numFlag = 0; // was it a number? int moreNums = 0; // was the last one a number too? int cptFlag = 0; // was it a capital letter? int moreCpt = 0; // was the last one a capital(or other letter) too? int deelay = 400; // this is the delay between characters, so we can speed it up later int alphabet[] = { 0,32,48,36,38,34,52,54,50,20,22,40,56,44,46,42,60,62,58,28,30,41,57,23,45,47,43,26, 8,27,16, 9,19,18,24,25}; // a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, ! ' () , - . : ; ? // 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35 void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(2, OUTPUT); // Dot 1 pinMode(3, OUTPUT); // Dot 2 pinMode(4, OUTPUT); // Dot 3 pinMode(5, OUTPUT); // Dot 4 pinMode(6, OUTPUT); // Dot 5 pinMode(7, OUTPUT); // Dot 6 pinMode(8, OUTPUT); // Space Bar Serial.println(" "); } void loop() { int numSymbol = 15; //that's the number symbol int capSymbol = 1; //that's the CAPITALS symbol //Is there anything comming in? if (Serial.available() > 0) { // get the incoming byte: inChar = Serial.read(); PosInAlpha = 255; // a default number to check leter to see if we found a transliteration inByte = int(inChar); // get the ascii code for it Serial.print("Ascii "); // print it for debugging. Serial.println(inByte); // print it for debugging. if ((inByte >= 48) and (inByte <= 57)) // If it is a number { Serial.println("So it's a number"); cptFlag = 0; // Reset both Capital flgs moreCpt = 0; if (numFlag == 1) // If the number flag is already set , then set the 'middle of a number' flag { moreNums = 1; } numFlag = 1; // Set the flag to add in the number symbol PosInAlpha = inByte - 48; // map 1,2,3 onto a,b,c if (PosInAlpha == 0) // Map zero onto 'j' { PosInAlpha=10; } } else // It isn't a number { numFlag = 0; // reset both flags moreNums = 0; if ((inByte >= 65) and (inByte <= 90)) // Uppercase letters { PosInAlpha = inByte - 64; if (cptFlag == 1) { moreCpt = 1; } cptFlag = 1; } if ((inByte >= 97) and (inByte <= 122)) // lowercase letters { PosInAlpha = inByte - 96; moreCpt = 1; } switch (inByte) // remember these arn't brailled digits, just pointers to where in the 'Alphabet' at the top to find the binary { case 32: // Space character. Something else will have to happen here eventually PosInAlpha = 0; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; break; case 33: // Exclamation mark PosInAlpha = 27; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("exclamation mark"); break; case 39: PosInAlpha = 28; // apostrophe, Note it can be found in the middle of a word so don't reset the Capital flags Serial.println("apostrophe"); break; case 40: // Open Bracket PosInAlpha = 29; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("Open Bracket"); break; case 41: // Close bracket. Yes it's the same as open PosInAlpha = 29; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("Close bracket"); break; case 44: // comma PosInAlpha = 30; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("comma"); break; case 45: // dash. Note it can be found in the middle of a word so don't reset the Capital flags PosInAlpha = 31; Serial.println(" dash"); break; case 46: // Full stop PosInAlpha = 32; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("full stop"); break; case 58: // colon PosInAlpha = 33; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("colon"); break; case 59: // semi colon PosInAlpha = 34; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("semi colon"); break; case 63: // question mark PosInAlpha = 35; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; Serial.println("question mark"); break; } } brailled = alphabet[PosInAlpha]; //get the binary representation of the braille dots Serial.print(" brailled "); Serial.println(brailled); if (brailled != 255) // i.e. if we found any valid transliteration { if ((numFlag == 1) and (moreNums == 0)) // if it's a number and the last one wasn't // we add in a 'number' symbol just before the digits { printOne(numSymbol); Serial.println("Number sign"); delay(deelay); printOne(0); } if ((cptFlag == 1) and (moreCpt == 0)) // if it's a capital and it's the first letter in the word // we add in a 'Captials' symbol here just before it { printOne(capSymbol); Serial.println("Capital"); delay(deelay); printOne(0); } // Now we print the character for real if (inByte == 32) // If it's a space push the space bar! { Serial.print("Space "); digitalWrite(8, HIGH); } Serial.print(inChar); // for debugging Serial.print(" "); printOne(brailled); Serial.println(""); printOne(0); // Now reset all the digi pins before the next character. digitalWrite(8, LOW); delay(deelay); } } else { numFlag = 0; // Reset all the flags before we start again. moreNums = 0; cptFlag = 0; moreCpt = 0; } } void printOne(int chr) { for (int bitCount=6; bitCount>0; bitCount--) //go through the six dots setting them correctly // Watch out! It goes throught them in reverse, 6,5,4,3,2,1 { if ( chr % 2 == 0 ) { Serial.print("0"); digitalWrite(bitCount+1, LOW); // We are setting digi pin + 1 because we couldn't use pin 1 'cos it's wierd } else { Serial.print("1"); digitalWrite(bitCount+1, HIGH); } chr = chr / 2; } Serial.println(""); delay(deelay); }