First successes with my self-moving wooden chessboard :)…
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First successes with my self-moving wooden chessboard :)
Happy to say that today I was able to play my first matches on a self-moving wooden chess board I have been working on for the last 2 months :)). After encountering many roadblocks I haven't anticipated, I'm a bit proud to have first results. It supports captures, castling and chess960.
Currently Stockfish, Maia3, Rodent IV and Patricia run it.
Matches are being recorded and saved as PGNs. With that, it saves the position, I can turn off the board and play on later.
Promotions are "technically" working, but are still a WIP, and everything is still stitched together and running via command line though :').
I'm now working on connecting it to Lichess's and Chess.com's APIs, so I can play actual online matches on the physical board. Additionally voice command so the board can execute a players move, if enabled.
After that a menu with an UI for the LCD screen which is embedded in the wall on the side, connecting everything cleanly.
Still a long road ahead, but truly happy that today, for the first time, I could sit down and play a full match with it :D!
(For everyone interested in the technical side: The "brain" is a Pi 5, a CoreXY-System controls the electromagnet, and pieces have neodymium magnets embedded which are detected by omnidirectional hall sensors on custom PCBs. For any more questions you can DM me :D)
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Happy to say that today I was able to play my first matches on a self-moving wooden chess board I have been working on for the last 2 months :)). After encountering many roadblocks I haven't anticipated, I'm a bit proud to have first results. It supports captures, castling and chess960.
Currently Stockfish, Maia3, Rodent IV and Patricia run it.
Matches are being recorded and saved as PGNs. With that, it saves the position, I can turn off the board and play on later.
Promotions are "technically" working, but are still a WIP, and everything is still stitched together and running via command line though :').
I'm now working on connecting it to Lichess's and Chess.com's APIs, so I can play actual online matches on the physical board. Additionally voice command so the board can execute a players move, if enabled.
After that a menu with an UI for the LCD screen which is embedded in the wall on the side, connecting everything cleanly.
Still a long road ahead, but truly happy that today, for the first time, I could sit down and play a full match with it :D!
(For everyone interested in the technical side: The "brain" is a Pi 5, a CoreXY-System controls the electromagnet, and pieces have neodymium magnets embedded which are detected by omnidirectional hall sensors on custom PCBs. For any more questions you can DM me :D)
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