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It is very hard to get funding for your cause when you are too young or just not experience enough, most especially in Sillicon Valley. But this little man came up with a wonderful idea that could cut down on the cost of Braille printers, and he got thumbs up from the world's biggest chipmaker Intel Corp in the form of money to bring that idea to a reality. Wondering who this is, read on.

13-year-old Shubham Banerjee, who is an Indian, received financial backing from Intel Capital for his idea of helping the blind by producing Braille printers that would cost as little as $500, compared to the current price of $2000. Banerjee built his own version of the printer out of legos(yes those toy building blocks) and inserted an Intel tiny chip called Edison as the device CPU. After the whole thing, he took his invention to his school science fair, and even won the Synopsys Science and Technology Championship prize.



How Intel got to know of his invention is something I don't know. Although, I heard his dad works for a start-up Intel acquired, so maybe that helped him a little. Anyway, Intel invited him to its conference of investors, employees and entrepreneurs where he showed off the device to the 1000 attendees. And he was shocked when the chipmaker said it would invest hundreds of dollars into its his cause Braigo Labs.

A Braille Printer

 So he will use that money to hire more experienced engineers and get the things he would need to build a real working low-cost Braille printer for blind people.