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Braille 200; bicentenary of braille code invention
In 1825, a 16-year-old blind boy named Louis Braille, at his school in Paris, invented the braille code for tactile reading. This invention has since spread enhancing literacy, education and employment of millions of blind people around the world. In 2025, we will...
Let’s play, Let’s Braille: Age of empires 3
For today’s excursion into virtual video game worlds, we have chosen another classic. The Age of Empires series has been famous for over 25 years for its sophisticated real-time strategy in various historical settings. And who says that Braille should always be...
Feel the Notation
Today, thanks to James Bowden, we are filling a small gap in our knowledge about music and combining it with Braille in a wonderful way. So far, we know how Braille music notation works in principle and that it is structured differently from music notation for sighted...
Let’s play, Let’s Braille: Terraria
We at Braille 200 have already created a lot of pictures and videos of our Braille 200 writing from a wide variety of things. Candy, safety pins, paper boats, to name just a few. This week, we’re shifting the focus to the virtual realm: the representation of...
Nermins Songs – Part 2: Braille’s Legacy
Today, as promised, we continue with Nermin’s second song Nermin Hasic As I wrote yesterday, I had only been using Soniva AI Musicmaker for a short time and my trial period was already coming to an end. After a taster course in Braille, I thought about how best...
Nermins Songs
Nermin Hasic will provide musical entertainment this weekend with two songs based on his ideas and brought to life by AI. You can decide for yourselves whether the AI has really covered itself in glory. We start today with a song in two versions that raises a real...
Braille in TV Shows and Movies. This time: The Book of Eli, or: Today’s Joke
The film I want to talk about today is, when all is said and done, a pretty run-of-the-mill, 08/15 post-apocalyptic romp. In other words: the world has once again gone straight down the drain with a big crash-bang-boom, drums and trumpets and all that. Things got so...
Thank you, Louis. Thank you, Dorothee.
For the first time in a long time, we at Braille 200 have some music to share. Our heartfelt thanks for this, and of course for the lyrics that came with it, go equally to Dorothee Feuerstein and everyone who can be heard here today. Thank you, Louis My name is...
Braille at Cologne central station
My name is Rainer, and in our latest video, I’ll explain how I use Braille to find not only my platform at Cologne Central Station, but also the exact section of the platform where I need to be. I have to take a train from platform 9 today, and the car where my...
Susannas find
Susanna Halme came across a very interesting article during her Braille research. Thank you very much, dear Susanna, for sharing this find with us. Reading tip: I’d like to recommend an article I came across while working on my thesis, which I thought was excellent....