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14£®In Silicon Valley£¬it's never too early to become an entrepreneur£®Just ask 13-year-old David Moore£®The eighth-grader has launched a company last October to develop low-cost machines to print Braille£¨²¼À³Ò¶Ã¤ÎÄ£©£®David built a Braille printer with a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question£ºHow do blind people read£¿"Google it£¬"they told him£®David then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers cost at least 2£¬000-too expensive for most blind readers£®"I just thought that price should not be there£®I know that there is a simpler way to do this£¬"said David£¬who demonstrated how his printer works at the kitchen table where he spent many late nights building it£®David wants to improve the"Braigo"-a name that combines Braille and Lego-and develop a Braille printer that costs around 350 and weighs just a few pounds£¬compared with current models that can weigh more than 20 pounds£®"My end goal would probably be having most of the blind people¡using my Braille printer£¬"said David£¬who lives in the Silicon Valley suburb of Santa Clara£¬just minutes away from Intel headquarters£®After the Braigo won numerous awards and enthusiastic support from the blind community£¬David started Braigo Labs last summer with an initial 35£¬000 investment from his dad£®"We as parents started to get involved more£¬thinking that he's on to something and this new way process has to continue£¬"said his father£¬Matthew Moore£¬an engineer who works for Intel£®
Intel officials were so impressed with David's printer that in November they invested an undisclosed sum in his start-up£®They believe he's the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture capital money invested in exchange for a financial stake in the company£®"He's solving a real problem£¬and he wants to go off and challenge an existing industry£¬"said Edward Ross£¬director of Inventor Platforms at Intel£®Now the company is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on David's ideas£®It aims to have a prototype £¨Ñù»ú£© ready for blind organizations to test this summer and have a Braigo printer on the market later this year£®
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