Braille Word Cube

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So I guess it was just a day or two ago I remade MrKindergarten's Word Cube. In the comments section Gillian703 asked if there was a way to add braille as one of the fonts in the Customizer? I didn't know how to do that, but I was able to just make a braille font for it instead. So now here is the cube in braille. Full instructions about the purpose and intent of the Word Cube can still be found under MrKindergarten's original version. If anyone can provide feedback on how to help improve this or make it more useful, I'd be glad to hear it and improve it in any way. Currently it only does lower case letters because I don't know the ideal/standard way to place the dot 6 to denote a capital letter. I updated the code some in the morning and set default rotation to a more printable way. Also added a bump at the start of the cube so they can feel where to start reading. Print Settings Supports: Yes Notes: I'd advise printing this standing up tall ways, so the braille can be printed. Then just clean it up a bit so the middle cube can spin. Overview and Background I'm not a teacher, but I helped teach a 3D modeling class in my high school during summer school after I graduated. Point of this is to help make more teaching aids available to those who need it. I guess also to help those who are visually impaired or just interested in learning braille have another way to do so from an early age. Lesson Plan and Activity Option 1: Lower Level Give the cubes to the children and have them just enjoy reading the words out loud. Option 2: Let them play with the cubes and make it a puzzle where they have to 'find' all 4 real words on the cube. Materials Needed As far as I am concerned, all you need is a captive audience and the cubes themselves. Skills Learned reading braille Customizer Notes: Warning, this will probably take a while (it took about an hour on this site) to render/make due to the large number of circles. If it seems like a major issue, I'll swap them out with cylinders instead. Also, when entering in words, only lowercase letters work.