Braille Tea Bag Cabinet and Drawers

Drawers sized specifically for tea bags with braille nameplates. Great for blind people who love tea!
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updated January 28, 2023

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I made this for my wife who is blind so she could find her tea flavors easily. The cabinet and drawers are resized so that they fit the X Y dimensions of one tea bag. I increased the Z on the drawers so that each drawer will hold approximately 7 tea bags.

The nameplates with braille were designed in Fusion 360. I've posted the flavors that my wife drinks but I can post more upon request. There is room for 10 characters of braille on each nameplate. The nameplates are good to print in pairs with one for the drawer and one for the box of bags that you may not have room for.

Printing Tips:

I printed at .3mm layer height with a .4mm nozzle.

I found that the braille dots needed to be sanded afterward for readability and smoothness. When printed with PLA, the dots are too small to be stable and sturdy. They pop off even when being read and very easily when sanded. PETG was more stable but vary hard to sand smooth enough to read comfortably. I settled on Fusion Filaments HTPLA which was sandable but sturdy. There was very minor stringing that I removed with a heat torch in a few seconds. Running a razor blade or exacto knife between the dots afterwards helped too.

Two versions of the drawer are included here - one with helper disks and one without. I found the drawers warped easily even when all variables were properly controlled. The best solution was the helper disks. They can easily be sliced off with an exacto knife after printing.

The pegs are a really tight fit. Once you put them in you may not get them back out!

Don't resize the braille nameplates or the braille will not be correct anymore. There is a standard for the distance between dots and the height of the dots. Resizing will skew it.

Hopefully this helps someone else out there because my wife really loves hers.

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