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here's another kid with a cool invention...

http://www.cnet.com/.....e-printer/

Shubham Banerjee, a California seventh grader, is one of those kids whose heart and mind extend well beyond his own life and into the the wider world beyond. For a science fair project, he contemplated the issue of braille printers, which can cost upwards of $2,000, and decided there must be a better way.

The better way he came up with involved the clever use of a $350 Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit along with a few bucks worth of hardware from Home Depot. He took a basic, preexisting pattern for a printer and reworked it with new software and hardware enhancements to print out letters in braille.

spotted-horses said
http://themindunleas.....nergy.html

Not terribly surprising. Implementing fractals has revolutionized many industries. While the Fibonacci Sequence is not technically a fractal, it shares the repeating/expanding cyclic principal that so many industry utilized fractals have...

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