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I would love two wall mounted e-ink displays showing chess boards so my 14 year old son could play chess with his grandfather. I imagine the game keeping track

I would love two wall mounted e-ink displays showing chess boards so my 14 year old son could play chess with his grandfather. I imagine the game keeping track of whose turn it is and being able to give voice commands to make moves. Then they could play games over a longer period of time, maybe make one move per day.

93po 3y ago
10 inch is probably workable and is also $2800 more affordable: https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10#products https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10#products
jareklupinski 3y ago
what's your budget :) the Lilygo T5 with Touch screen + a lipo battery would have all the hardware you need just need to port chess to the platform after that https://www.hackster.io/Sergey_Urusov/arduino-mega-chess-d54383 https://www.hackster.io/Sergey_Urusov/arduino-mega-chess-d54... figuring out NAT traversal to get them talking to each other from each other's homes might be tricky/fun, but there may be ways around that...
- andrewstuart 3y ago
  Pretty cool at $36.36 USD https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3 https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3 It would be great to be able to buy this in a size that would mount easily into common photo frame formats. Ideally with a battery that could last months and optional power. If I was retired it's the sort of project I'd happily waste time on.
  - konschubert 3y ago
    I am making these displays that come in a wooden frame: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... You could render the current state of the chess game to an image and serve that image on a URL on the internet. Then you can connect the display to that image: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image-url-manual.html https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image... Admittedly that's still a lot of work from your side, and a little applet to keep running...

93po 3y ago

10 inch is probably workable and is also $2800 more affordable: https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10#products https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10#products

jareklupinski 3y ago

what's your budget :) the Lilygo T5 with Touch screen + a lipo battery would have all the hardware you need just need to port chess to the platform after that https://www.hackster.io/Sergey_Urusov/arduino-mega-chess-d54383 https://www.hackster.io/Sergey_Urusov/arduino-mega-chess-d54... figuring out NAT traversal to get them talking to each other from each other's homes might be tricky/fun, but there may be ways around that...

andrewstuart 3y ago
Pretty cool at $36.36 USD https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3 https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3 It would be great to be able to buy this in a size that would mount easily into common photo frame formats. Ideally with a battery that could last months and optional power. If I was retired it's the sort of project I'd happily waste time on.
- konschubert 3y ago
  I am making these displays that come in a wooden frame: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... You could render the current state of the chess game to an image and serve that image on a URL on the internet. Then you can connect the display to that image: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image-url-manual.html https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image... Admittedly that's still a lot of work from your side, and a little applet to keep running...