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Personal Research Project

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How can we make celebratory objects enjoyable for those who lack sight?

For my final personal research project, I created a diagram of an English (North US) braille model that says "Happy birthday to you!" in uncontracted form

I designed a 3D model for my braille here in Fusion360
I 3D printed the model on Nov. 24th at the Makerspace in Tempe. here
- I ran into the issue of the cylinder braille nodes being too small, some were falling off the model while there were a few cylinders completely missing
- To work around this, I cut up some tooth picks and hot glued them onto the model
- I also applied hot glue around the base of each cylinder to prevent them from falling off/breaking while indenting the card
- I proceeded to do a test print on the same card stock I would be using (very rough test)

I designed a card in Illustrator. I applied a red-orange-magenta gradient hue to the card, drew out my rastor and vector lines, then printed the design on card stock with my own printer at home.
On Dec 1st, I went to the ASU MiX Center in Mesa to laser print my card
- L: 4.5 in, W: 7 in
- I ran into the issue of the model being a bit off centered. I was advised by the print studio assistant to cut the edges with an X-Acto blade.

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