Richard
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Chess Playing Robot Arm That Will Beat You!

It uses a 3D printed robot arm from free resources with my code to recognise the human moves and control the arm

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Chess Playing Robot Arm That Will Beat You!

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino Mega 2560
Arduino Mega 2560
×1
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Or a later version
×1
Ramps 1.4
×1
Stepper motor driver board A4988
SparkFun Stepper motor driver board A4988
×3
NEMA 17 stepper motor
×3
USB Speaker
Or similar
×1
HP Webcam HD 2300
Or similar
×1
USB Light
Or similar
×2
SG90 Micro-servo motor
SG90 Micro-servo motor
×1
AMS1117
×1

Software apps and online services

Raspbian
Raspberry Pi Raspbian
Python 3, pyserial, psutil, aplay, numpy, pillow, espeak, python stockfish class, Thonny
Stockfish chess engine

Hand tools and fabrication machines

3D Printer (generic)
3D Printer (generic)

Story

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Schematics

Community Robot Arm

Get guides from https://github.com/20sffactory/community_robot_arm

Code

Raspberry Pi code for 3D printed chess robot

Credits

Richard

Richard

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Thanks to Ralf-Peter Micko.

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