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).


12. Putting It All Together

With the camera, software, and platform working it is now time to bring the Bookreader to life.

Make sure that the camera is calibrated to take focused images of the book and that the motor mount is moving correctly and turning the pages.

Download bookreader2.py from the BrickPi Github Python Repo and put it in the directory where you have the BrickPi.py library. Run the code to bring it to life.

sudo bookreader.py

If you end up building you own Bookereader or something even more awesome please post it on the forums, we would love to feature it.

Happy Hacking!

Questions? Ask on our forums here!