MyRobotLab Plays Chess with Patrick?

Let's Make Robots
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Hi,

This is a blog post for PM and anyone else interested.  I have been doing many updates to mrl, and have begun working on some tutorial videos.  Patrick Mccabe and I spoke a couple times regarding hooking up his great chess robot to mrl for a game engine.  

Well, he beat me to it and found one to interface with Apple Script - but I still thought it would be fun to try.  It did not take me more than 30 mins to find, download, and wrap a chess game engine and gui with mrl.

Once the chessgame is a Service it can be loaded through the gui and integrated with other services.  In the video I show how to start it up and have it send a command string to the serial port and gui/logger.

The mrl GUI can be put into an applet so it can be played over the inter tubes too..

GroG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJ55Vpb-fY?fs=1
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Very cool! I will try it
Very cool! I will try it later today when I am back at home.

One key component to my script was that the chess robot sent the move the user entered on the chess robot’s keypad to the script via xbee. So the arduino serial output gets connected to the chess engine input. I see right now you are playing with the computer.

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What is the baud rate of the

What is the baud rate of the Xbee? What pin is the xmit? Can you post the code for the Arduino here?  

I have a sort of slave PDE for the Arduino, where it does whatever the computer tells it to do.