Common Reading Bot

The Common Reading Bot dispenses a printout of a key quotation from the 2018 NC State Common Reading selection $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer—and it reads that quotation aloud to you. It combines a Raspberry Pi 3, a thermal printer, a small touch screen, and an audio component. With the support of a Common Reading Mini-Grant, Libraries Fellow Colin Nickels helped develop and launch the bot last year using the existing Poem Dispenser bot that Digital Research and Scholarship Librarian Markus Wust developed in the NC State University Libraries Makerspace.