BrickPi Book Paper Reader
A few months ago, we made a Bookreader powered by the BrickPi which had the ability to read pages from your Kindle. There was a huge response to the project. But what everyone really wanted was a bookreader that could read a real paper book.
Here we present to you the BrickPi Bookreader 2 which can read aloud a real book (the voice becomes a bit irritating after a while) and also turn the pages of the book (we are really proud of this).
10. Building the LEGO Platform
Since we wanted to use the Raspberry Pi Camera, the whole BrickPi setup had to be placed a bit high to get a good picture of the page. The structure that we ended up with looked a bit like a lean AT-AT from Star Wars.
It’s a bit tricky to set up the motors at the bottom. The motor with the rotating arm has to be set in a way that it only goes an inch inside the book so that it can get a soft grip on the page.
