Microsoft investing in Santa Clara teenager's braille printer

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Thursday, January 22, 2015
Santa Clara teen Shubham Banerjee shows off the braille printer that he made from his Legos robotics set.
Santa Clara teen Shubham Banerjee shows off the braille printer that he made from his Legos robotics set.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- Microsoft is making a big investment into a Bay Area teenager's science fair project.

ABC7 News first brought you the story of Shubham Banerjee last January. The Santa Clara eighth-grader made a braille printer from his Legos robotics set.

This is the low-cost braille Braigo printer that Shubham Banerjee created. (Jan. 22, 2015/ABC7 News)

Now Microsoft wants in.

The tech giant is helping Banerjee develop a more robust braille printer using a windows tablet.

Banerjee already has seed funding from Intel, where his dad works.