Fall 2013 Panda Hack-a-thon Project
In this project, it was our goal to create a completely autonomous chess computer running solely on Raspberry Pi, which uses a camera to perform computer vision to detect when pieces move on the board, and how they move.
The chess engine is the open source Stockfish 4, set to maximum difficulty which should beat grandmaster players even on the Raspberry Pi hardware!
* Marc Novakowski
* Greg Zavitz
* Bruce Karsh
* Paul Carter
* Melissa Hicks
* Neil Mix
- Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi camera module
- High contrast chess set with black and white pieces
- We used the black version of http://www.coolchesscanada.ca/collections/plastic-chess-sets/products/club-chess-pieces-with-vinyl-board-3-75-king
- Stockfish 4 chess engine, compiled and installed in /usr/local/bin/stockfish