{"id":18780,"date":"2018-04-25T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18780"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T11:37:41","slug":"play-a-game-of-ghost-chess-with-this-interactive-raspberry-pi-powered-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18780","title":{"rendered":"Play a game of Ghost Chess with this interactive, Raspberry Pi-powered board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?w=711&amp;ssl=1 711w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chess.png?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Angelov, Tim Ness and Alex Smith have teamed up as part of their Real Time Embedded Programming course to build this wonderful game of &#8216;Ghost Chess&#8217;. The system uses a Raspberry Pi to control a robotic arm mechanism with an electromagnet attached. By issuing commands to the Pi, the arm can move into position underneath a chess board and move the magnetised chess pieces to the correct position. The Pi runs an instance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stockfishchess.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockfish chess engine<\/a> to allow the computer to try and beat you. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/2083008\/GhostChess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They&#8217;ve open-sourced everything you need to build your own and have documented it over on GitHub<\/a>. You can see a video of it in action below (I recommend turning the audio off!):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GhostChess\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MZTQNxuwCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Angelov, Tim Ness and Alex Smith have teamed up as part of their Real Time Embedded Programming course to build this wonderful game of &#8216;Ghost Chess&#8217;. 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