LEGO Boost Voice-Controller Plotter Printer

My idea for this contest entry is a plotter printer using a pen and paper that converts your spoken words to written words on paper.

 

Simply talk to the LEGO Boost app on your smart device’s microphone to start recording. The app will connect to the LEGO Boost hub via Bluetooth and the printer will write the words you have said out loud on the sheet of paper. The app converts your spoken words into individual letters, and each letter has a programmed set of instructions for the printer to write each letter.

The voice-controlled plotter printer uses a LEGO Boost Hub and 1 LEGO Boost motor. The Boost hub uses its 2 motors to control the X and Y axis on the paper. Motor ‘A’ will move the conveyor belt back and forth along the X axis and motor ‘B’ will rotate wheels that will roll the sheet of paper up and down the Y axis. The separate Boost motor in port ‘C’ attached to the writing head on the conveyor belt raises and lowers the ink pen on the paper.

 

 

The LEGO Boost Plotter Printer features:

-Boost Hub and Boost Motor

-Conveyor belt connected with gears

-Wheels with rubber tires that roll the paper

-Elastic bands to hold the pen in the pen holder and to also add pressure when writing

-There is space behind the conveyor belt bar for the paper to freely roll in and out of the printer.

 

What can this plotter printer be used for?

-Write “hand-written” notes for friends/family. Looks great if you have poor hand writing!

-write your homework while playing video games by simply dictating your book report out loud!

-be used as a real printer for printing any text .txt document.