The Family Without Hope Tactile Book

Creating a Tactile Book of The Family Without Hope.This book was created as part of the Tactile Picture Book Project at the University of Colorado at Boulder.For more information go to www.tactilepicturebooks.org

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use the 3D program Cura on your computer to upload the .STL file to the 3D Printer.

Use regular white paper to print.

Go to the laser cutter machine with cardboard so that it could laser cut these pieces. Use this file.

Use Swell paper to print.Braille will be placed on paper and later put through a heating machine made for swell paper.

Use swell paper to print.Braille will be placed on paper and later put through a heating machine made for swell paper.

Use swell paper to print.Braille will be placed on paper and later put through a heating machine made for swell paper.

This is to make the braille print pop out the material of the swell paper.The braille print will be brought up from being flat.

You want to buy fur, leather and the base structure (which is a 16x20 wooden frame) and black paint. You can get these at Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts and Guiry's Color Source.

You want to use the special marker for swell paper to draw waves for water. You put it through the heating machine so that it makes the marker drawing pop out.

This is to show that the waves of the water are blue. So you want to make it visually appealing.

You want to do this to harden the swell paper material to avoid getting the material scraped off.You also want to do this to the blue drawing so that it pops out the blue to create a bright blue water setting.

You want to do this to avoid getting black paint on the side of the base structure or on your 3D models.If paint does get on the inside,use sand paper to get black paint off the inside outline wood.

The base structure is made of wood.So you want to paint the outside and top outlining of this base structure.This give the structure a better look.

Hot glue tiny side pieces with the long pieces to make a rectangle.Hot glue tile and author name piece on top of rectangle base.

Paint the whole top of laser cut title and author structure with black chalk paint.This looks better then having a plain brown cardboard look.

Measure out a piece of white paper to put under the laser cut structure.Hot glue the paper onto the laser cut structure.You do this to pop out the laser cut title and author name.Make sure paint is dry before doing so.

Hot Glue:

• Place Polar Bear Face (Dad) inside of base structure in the upper left corner
• Place Polar Bear claw next to Polar Bear Face (Dad) on the right side
• Place Polar Bear Face(Son) next to Polar Bear Claw on the right side
• Place Swell Paper Waves Below Polar Bear Face (Dad)
• Place Arctic Setting next to Swell Paper Waves on the right side
• Place Fox Face next to Arctic Setting on the right side
• Place Fox Fur(fur),Polar Bear Fur(fur) and Sea Lion Blubber(leather) below Swell Paper Waves
• Place Sun next to Place Fox Fur(fur),Polar Bear Fur(fur) and Sea Lion Blubber(leather)
• Place Sea Lion next to the Sun

Place laser cut structure on whole right side of base structure.This will take up the whole right side area.Make sure title name and author is viewed from a side view.The laser cut structure is removable so audio can be placed inside if audio is needed.

Make sure they are two separate lines of braille text.One strip for the title and one strip for the author name.

Use a cardboard piece when spraying adhesive spray.After spraying strips of braille,place the title on bottom left corner of laser cut structure and place author name on bottom right of laser cut structure.

Use a sticky plastic plastic binding object to clamp whole story in braille together.Put binding object on left side of page.

You want to have the regular font story inside of braille book to have for presentation reasons such as audience members reading the story.