Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 11:43:38 10/23/04
Here's a picture of a do-it-yourself robotic arm suitable for moving chess pieces: http://www.marioferrari.org/brlm/f2204.jpg It's made from about US$500 of Lego/Mindstorms parts including a pair of programmable microcontrollers. It appears to have three degrees of freedom and is fed moves via a serial link to a computer running a chess program. It would be interesting to see one of these hooked up to an auto sensory chessboard. It probably wouldn't be too hard to enable the arm to press a chess clock after each move. Not good for blitz, though; the motor speed required might be too much and the arm would fly apart.
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