I tried this the other week! CNIB will loan out a braille typer... except that all of them are (apparently) out for repairs at the moment. So. I used a $1. Type what you want to say into there. Copy and paste into a word document. Screen shot and flip the image horizontally, then print this out on regular paper. Size 20 seemed to work, but I'd go a little bit bigger. Use the side of a cereal box... cut out the rectangle, tape the backwards braille paper on the inside surface... the rough cardboardy bit. Place corrugated cardboard beneath the cereal box part. Using a needle, poke through each dot. This is why you flipped the braille... so it comes out the right way when poked through to the other side. Once done poking through, remove the piece of paper taped on there. Use something slightly thicker, and poke through all the holes again (from the inside, to the glossy outside again, so the raised surface is on the smooth side). A toothpick might work well for this. It takes a lonnnng time, but it was readable. Make sure you have good lighting. Shadows are the shit, and can mess up where you think the end of the needle is and make letters warped.

Yes, this works in a pinch! Print it out, hold it up to the light and poke from the back to the front

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