Thanks ‪@ElectroBOOM‬ and ‪@Jabrils‬ for being prototype victims, ‪@JoelCreates‬ for the initial inspiration with your excellent keyboard, ‪@opensaucelive‬ for bringing so many mad scientists under one roof, ‪@raspberrypi‬ for the brains, and ‪@AlaskaAirlines‬ for allowing me to get so much practice with acrylic glue.

Yes, it took me an extra year to get this video out. I took it to Open Sauce v1 in 2023!

In Taser Chess, you strap your arm to a TENS unit, then your hand receives a shock for any "bad" move, based on a chess engine, puzzle solving, or a timed game. Powered by Raspberry Pi with pythonchess doing the heavy lifting on chess logic. It supports all standard rules except en passant, because who does that.

0:00 Hustling
1:55 Creating the board "keys"
2:47 First shocking test
3:00 Board modes
4:16 Building while traveling
6:05 Advice from Open Sauce
6:49 Crunch time
7:56 Have board, will travel
8:09 Disaster the first
8:49 Disaster strikes again
9:00 Open Sauce
9:58 Return of Disaster
10:28 Rebuilding again
10:42 A visit to the master
11:25 Playing taser keyboard
11:40 A fourth rewiring
12:00 Back where we started



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