Shubham Banerjee had closed an early round funding with Intel Capital last month to develop a prototype of low-cost Braille printer.

But in the meantime, a few start-ups are building cool new products like Jibo, the family robot – a recently funded Indiegogo project.

A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy in the US has designed a low-cost Braille printer using toy construction Lego pieces.

A range of D-I-Y computing tools like Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Lego’s Mindstorms can provide the base to build completely unique creations