We'd be stuck':alarm as UK's last Braille typewriter repairer ponders retirement

As someone who had to haul one of these around in elementary school, good riddance! They were annoyingly heavy and difficult to move as a child. I believe part of the reason for their size is that they support full-size Braille paper for creating books. Now that books are created using Braille printers, there's not as much of a need for something so large. I used an older version of the Mountbatten Brailler (https://mountbattenbrailler.com/) and liked it because it was lighter and easier to carry. I wish there were a smaller version of this, without all the computer features. It would be even better if it had open-source software and freely available schematics.

What an excellent project to create an ifixit-like, comprehensive repair tutorial, and put it on the internet.