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Additional Pictures 

 

The upper part of the Galixa Piezo housing holds not tonly the calculator and loudspeaker but even
an array of 10 refreshable Braille cells. 

The Braille cells use 8 pins per character instead the 6 pins found in the early products.  

One of the 10 Braille cells.

The Braille cells uses an ASIC with some switching transistors to apply a high voltage of about 200V DC to each of 
the 8 bending type Piezo actuators.  Simply by bending the Piezo stick each of the white plastic pins is moved 
towards the finger tip of the user. 


horizontal rule

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