A student built a chess robot that humiliates opponents
Miscellaneous / / July 28, 2023
They even made a pathos trailer with music from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
At the Open Sauce show in San Francisco, an exhibitor named Noah Davis showed its development based on Raspberry Pie Pico, a chess robot with built-in ChatGPT.
The author assembled the robot out of annoyance with his own poor skills: he wanted the machine to play for him and do it well. This idea is nothing new, so Davis decided to diversify the concept by adding a chatbot. ChatGPT came in handy for regenerating speech - and not just any, but selective insults. Because what kind of game of chess is it if you don't get humiliated for stupid moves?
In order for the robot to move the pieces itself, a magnet is fixed at the bottom of each, and Hall sensors are fixed on the underside of the board. The computer is connected to the rows and columns of sensors in the manner of a keyboard, reading occupied and free cells.
Of course, with such a scheme, the computer cannot know where which figure is. To fix this, Davies wrote a code to track the movements of each piece from a known starting position. It took a lot of time, because the author could only devote a couple of hours to programming the project in the morning before school.
The LED strip on the side of the board shows whose turn it is. If it's blue, you can walk, if it's red, wait until the robot takes the winning idea from Stockfish to beat you.
There is no talk of a commercial release of the device: it is just an experimental robot assembled for the exhibition. Would you play with him?
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