Chess-Robot

Components

• Each chess piece needs a neodymium magnet attached to the base
• A grid of 64 reed swithes and diodes to localize chess pieces
• 2 stepper motors and 1 servo motor for the 2-axis robotic arm and its magnetic head
• Two Arduino boards are required due to limited GPIO pins
  • Arduino Mega (sensor reading processing and main control)
  • Arduino Uno (motor control)
• 2 seven-segment displays and 1 LCD for the chess clock
• Sjeng chess engine on an external PC to output AI moves and report invalid moves

Features

• Chess clock can respond to sensors and automatically switch side
• Moves, captures, castling, and pawn promotions are smartly detected and displayed on the LCD
• Invalid moves can be corrected by a human player
• Difficulty level and game mode can be adjusted in the Chess Helper app (macOS)

Supported game modes

• human vs human
• human vs AI (human white)
• AI vs human (AI white)
• AI vs AI

Demo (AI vs AI)