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What's Your Pi Plan??

Former Member

Hi!

 

Just curious about what people were planning on using their Raspberry Pi's for once they started getting them!??

 

Current plan- SFF Media PC / NAS etc mounted onto the VESA on the back of my TV

 

Later plan- Replace car stereo etc with RPi

 

Probably not the most origional use there but still, godda start somewhere!

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  • I developed a GPS board addon for the RPi

     

    Added some bluetooth, some external SRAM, high power LEDs, temperature sensor and ports for I2C for other sensors

     

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5ruw070Hu00/T1DUxZhVDHI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/2PQ53dfEVwc/s288/IMG_20120301_205107.jpg

     

    https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2mfgZvqS9fM/T1DUtbwKijI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/eX2rQhnZIbk/s288/IMG_20120301_205124.jpg

  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi,

     

    My intention is to make a mini driving chess robot. I'm an average programmer and studying ICT in Business, bit of both worlds.

     

    My ultimate goal would be a little robot car running a chess engine or online chess environment (like FICS). With very tiny wheels, board mounted vertical, so it squeezes at the sidelines or on the board.

    A little camera, or for testing my current webcam, will detect the moves. The state of the board is stored in the computer, like any chess engine.

    For moving pieces, it would therefore now which squares are free, and be able to calculate the path before moving really quick.

    For detecting moves, it would know which moves it has to check and will calculate its path for checking using the squares that will be free in any case.

     

    Is this feasible or impossible to do? My idea is that i should start on a large sheet of paper, draw my own chess board, and place little pieces on there. Use my own big webcam, and don't care too much about miniature. It's just a proof of concept.

    I think that it's the computing power on small surface in raspberrypi that could be the brain of a standalone chess player / mover.

     

     

    Greetings,

     

    Wouter

  • in reply to Former Member

    Check this remote chess robotic system which used the arduino microcontroller. Cool use of under board magnets / sensors to move the peices plus over the net comunication why havent i seen this as a comercial product yet??

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX37LFv8jWY

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