SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched a company to de… ...

In Silicon Valley, it's never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee.

And I found out that braille printers cost $2,000 onwards." So using Legos, he set out to build an affordable braille printer -- that cost only $350 to make.

Shubham Banerjee, right, works on his lego robotics braille printer as his dad Neil sets up a current computer version of the printer at home Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif. Banerjee ...

A 12-year-old student from California has created a Braille printer by repurposing parts from a Lego set. Shubham Banerjee, a seventh-grade student from Santa Clara, Calif., developed the Braille ...

A 7th grader from Santa Clara made a low-cost braille printer out of his LEGO set for a science fair and wants to open-source it to the blind.

Technology benefiting the visually impaired has been making great strides in recent years, with devices like the GPS and smartphone-equipped BlindSpot cane and clever Braille iPad case concept design.

Braigo Labs is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on Shubham's ideas. The company aims to have a prototype ready for blind ...

A 12-year-old student from California has created a Braille printer by repurposing parts from a Lego set. Shubham Banerjee, a seventh-grade student from Santa Clara, Calif., developed the Braille ...

Braigo Labs is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on Shubham's ideas. The company aims to have a prototype ready for blind ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee.

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