Inspiration
Here at the Lizard Wizard team, we love to play chess. We love it so much that we wanted to make an AI to practice against at home, and with this goal in mind, we got to work!
What it does
Muff-in, Muff-out is a project set out to use our King Gizzard AI and a whole bunch of wires to play chess in real life.
How we built it
The King Gizzard AI was built using python, following standard value algorithms for calculating optimal moves against the player.
The Chessboard itself was made using magnets connected to the bottom of an old Ikea shelf that moves using pipes attached to bearings. The AI senses the player's moves using a hall effect sensor to detect the magnets attached to the bottom of each chess piece (which, by the way, we drilled holes into them to insert the magnets.
Challenges we ran into
Everything was a challange!
Our magnets would sometimes not pick up the chess pieces for the sake of not picking them up, and we still don't know why!
Same with our sensors. Whenever they feel like it, they just start spitting out random numbers making our King Gizzard really confused :(
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are most proud of our King Gizzard AI. Our AI not only knows all the rules of chess but also understands that it is not a good idea to trade a queen for a pawn.
We are also very proud of getting the chess board and sensors somewhat operational.
What we learned
The most valuable thing we learned was that it is called a Muffin because you Muff-in the cold batter and you Muff-out the ready-to-eat Muffin.
What's next for Muff-in, Muff-out: a chess extravaganza
The chess board is being gutted for spare parts on future projects and the King Gizzard AI is getting ready to take over the world in another repository.
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