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Hate to be a spoil sport but if when pieces move they nudge other pieces out of the way and then those nudged pieces have to be put back by hand, then there’s s
by gizajob 2y ago
Hate to be a spoil sport but if when pieces move they nudge other pieces out of the way and then those nudged pieces have to be put back by hand, then there’s still work left to be done. Same goes for capturing - the captured piece should walk itself off the board.
- ekianjo 2y agoYeah the videos were far from impressive...
- pavel_lishin 2y agoOn the other hand, it's certainly more impressive than almost anything I've put together in the past five years.
- freetonik 2y agoMy first thought was "those nudged pieces can surely be put back in place automatically using the same exact mechanism!".
- themanmaran 2y agoI was also thinking that each piece could have a magnet at the base. And when a piece is captured, the underlying gantry could flip the polarity with an electromagnet and sorta launch the captured piece off the board. Although it seemed like the author had other issues with using an electromagnet here (i.e. overheating / switching polarity).
- sebastiansm 2y agoFor a hobby project seems like good progress. Polishing the last 20% of functionalities will take him a lifetime. Maybe other chess/robotic enthusiast could join him to accelerate some border cases.
- SamBam 2y agoI don't see this as "labor having for the human" but rather as a way to immerse yourself into the fantasy that you're playing another being.