Chess is a difficult recreation to be taught, even earlier than you get into varied methods and techniques. The straightforward act of memorizing the totally different piece’s strikes will be overwhelming to individuals new to the sport. To make it simple to find out the place items can go, Redditor Bakedbananas is constructing an illuminated chess board that shows a participant’s doable strikes.

That is nonetheless a piece in progress, however the brief video does an amazing job of demonstrating the idea. The whole board is lit from beneath and usually reveals the usual checkered sample. However when an individual lifts up a chunk, the encircling squares change shade to point the place the participant can place that piece. The beginning sq. is yellow, and squares the piece can transfer to are inexperienced. Crimson squares point out positions {that a} piece would usually be capable to go, however that are blocked by different items.

Bakedbananas hasn’t posted many technical particulars but, however some data is obtainable. The items and board, together with the translucent squares, are 3D-printed. An Arduino Mega 2560 board detects the presence of items on squares utilizing Reed switches and magnets within the items’ bases. However the Arduino can’t establish every distinctive piece. For that purpose, it should observe each piece’s motion from its beginning place to be able to preserve a working document of the kind of piece situated at every sq..