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Subject: Re: Robotic Chess Computer

Author: William Kerr

Date: 17:59:36 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 07:59:44, Andreas Rueckert wrote:

>No, not really...
>But you might be able to build your own chess roboter? We were told, that a
>university in Canberra used our Java chess app + a standard roboter arm to build
>such construction. Would love to see this, but it seems they don't have anything
>available on the net. We were told, that they want to add a camera for visual
>board and piece recognition later and a webcam, so you can logon and play
>against the roboter via web.

I've seen on the net where someone built a Lego robot that picked up the pieces
and move them. It was setup like an X-Y plotter (made out of Legos) that was
mounted above the chess board to grip the peices.

I also saw a second Lego chess robot that contained a tiny chess program in the
Lego RCX brick and also moved the peices from below the board. It used an X-Y
plotter type mechanism (made from Lego bricks) that moved a magnet below the
board to move the selected peice.

Bill




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