A fully automated electromagnetic chessboard.
You can play chess on our laptop and the pieces get moved for you on the board.
We used an Arduino Uno Board with 2 Stepper Motors and a Electromagnet.
The actual chessboard was made out of wood with a few lego components.
Chess pieces were handmade and fitted with a neodymium magnet underneath.
PySerial: Allows us to communicate to the Ardduino board via a serial port.PyGame: Used to render all graphical components onto the screen.Stockfish: Used as the main Chess Engine.PyChess: Used to validate moves executed by human players.Python 2.7: As the PyChess packages were only available for 2.7 we could not upgrade to Python 3.
The main program is written in Python 2.7 and uses Pygame as a Graphic's Engine.
Version 2.0.12-Works has all dependencies disabled and solely relies on Python 2.7 and Pygame to be installed.
Version 2.0.12 will instead require PySerial, PyChess and the Stockfish API.
