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AndrewGillisSoftware / Affordable-Automated-Chess

A Open Source Project that seeks to create a automated chess board that costs less than $150 and is customizable based on the user's needs.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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PCB #2

Open skolodi opened 1 year ago

skolodi commented 1 year ago

Hello, amazing project. I have the Digital hall sensor problem (failure when 2 eat position appears and select one) So I have to change to Linear Hall Sensor, as you did. I want to see your PCB Schematic, but the file "SmartChessBoard.sch" seems not be the final one. similar situation with the SmartChessBoard.kicad_pcb file. Both have less than 1KB, and seems to be empty.

Any idea? Thanks a lot from and regards Argentina.

AndrewGillisSoftware commented 10 months ago

Hi, Argentina, sorry for the super late response. I sadly ran out of time on this project before creating the PCB to detect pieces. I did create a linear prototype with hall effect detection but I ran out of time before making the full scale one. I am about to start a version 2 of this project that should eliminate the need of a custom PCB through the means of a camera underneath the chess board and vision processing piece shadows. Another option I am looking into is increasing the linear rail design to increase the end effector movement speed. If the rails move fast enough an O(N) scan with a linear hall would be easy for a hobbyist to create. Overall the next design will not use custom PCBs as I hope to make this project a hobbyist with a 3D printer could create in a weekend.

Thanks for looking at my project! Best Regards Andrew

Also here is a video with the board in action if you have not seen it already, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgxK-cfJCh0

skolodi commented 10 months ago

Hello! I made the PCB, and open it on: https://oshwlab.com/skolodi/00-automated_chess_board_v01

By the way...for the next rail design...did you see this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9kKoZJoH7o&t=105s

On minute 2...the X-Y systems looks very nice.

X-Y system

Regards.