The Legacy Mountbatten Brailler Information page is relevant to models that are not in production anymore. The list of models includes:

  • Mountbatten Brailler Writer Classic
  • Mountbatten Brailler Pro Classic
  • Mountbatten Brailler Plus Classic
  • Mountbatten Brailler Learning System
  • Mountbatten Braille Whisperer Writer
  • Mountbatten Braille Whisperer Plus
  • Mountbatten Brailler Whisperer Learning System

On this page, you will find end-user training, service, and software updates for the Mountbatten models listed above and their accessories. If you are looking for information on the new Mountbatten Brailler Tutor – please navigate to the top menu of this page to find the needed information.

Mountbatten Brailler User Guides

The most current versions of the User Guides for your MB-LS, MB Pro, MB Writer+, and MB Writer are available on this site.

OV15786Click on the links to access these files in pdf format.

 

Mountbatten Brailler with MBMimic / MB-Comm / Mimic

MBMimic for iOS/Android

MBMimic is an app that enhances the power of Mountbatten Brailler, MBMimic is available free of charge for all Android (4.4 or higher) users in Google Play Store and iOS users in App Store.

MBMimic for Mac OS X

MBMimic for OS X is here for free download. It features the same great options as its mobile counterpart. Required USB cable connection with the Mountbatten.

MBMimic for MacOSX
Latest Driver

MB-Comm for Windows

MB- Comm for Windows is here for free download. Required USB cable connection with the Mountbatten.

 

Mimic LCD Display

Mimic from above cropped

The Mimic is a 20-character by 4-line LCD display that connects to the Mountbatten Brailler. It allows for easy supervision of a student by sighted teachers. The Mimic can store up to 32 pages of braille as text, thus allowing for review of work in progress or to check back over previous work.
Battery operated and portable it connects to the Mountbatten via an allocated Mimic Serial port. For further information, see the user guide:

Mimic User Guide

 

Mountbatten Firmware

For technical information on updating your legacy Mountbatten Brailler models software, please visit https://mountbattenbrailler.com/partners/

 

Braille Graphics

Making pictures from the Mountbatten Keyboard

 

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In normal Braille or non-graphics mode, your Mountbatten allows the correct amount of space between Braille characters and between lines of Braille for reading. In Graphics Mode, these spaces are reduced so that it is possible to make unbroken lines of dots.

The effect of reducing the spacing between characters and lines can be seen in this graphical example. In the first picture of a flag, the normal line spacing means that the picture has gaps which will make it more difficult to identify. The second picture has had the gaps reduced, and the line of the flagpole is now continuous, while the edges of the flag have smaller gaps.

 

As soon as your MB-LS is in Graphics Mode, typing at the keyboard can produce an image. The simplest example is a rectangle:

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This rectangle can be made by typing the following three lines:

p c c c c c c th
l space space space space space space dots 4 5 6
v - - - - - - number sign

For the rectangle, the PC keyboard keystrokes are:

pcccccc?
l space space space space space space _
v------#

 

For more Braille drawings you can type on the Mountbatten keyboard,
click the link to Marie Porter’s book: „So What About Drawing?”.

 

SET-BC Guides

The SET-BC Lesson Guide and Visual Guide were written by Graham Cook, an Itinerant Teacher for the Visually Impaired, for the Special Education Technology group in British Columbia, Canada.

Graham’s work has been instrumental in making Mountbatten and its users very welcome in integrated classrooms around the globe; we recommend it warmly, and thank Graham for his wonderful work!

Click on the links to read online or download:

 

Mountbatten Video Guides

The videos linked below have been made by Steve Barclay of the Aroga Group in Canada. Steve has worked intensively with the Mountbatten and Mountbatten users for quite a while, and his videos are a great introduction for the new user.

Each link will open a new video in your system’s player; the videos are in .wmv format, which can be played in Windows Media Player, MPlayer, or any media player that can play this format.

The videos are hosted by Vision Education Alberta in Canada.