Al Sweigart on Nostr: Silly project idea: Build a robot to move chess pieces around a board and take photos ...
Silly project idea: Build a robot to move chess pieces around a board and take photos of common configurations, then open it to let people play chess that shows a photographed board instead of computer graphics. I'd build up a cache of openings, and have the robot take more photos as needed.
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