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It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fdevpost.com\u002Fsoftware\u002Fchess-boss\n\nThere are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. 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ML tools have definitely come a long way in the past few years! We used CreateML for our first pass which is great for prototyping; you just give it your training data…",{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Raspberry Pi","commenter",[75],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"21169393","rocauc","Great minds! Love that you deployed to a Pi – I’ve thought about the same to complement or replace smartphones. Can you shed some insight into your ML process? One thing we did…","unknown","prototype","team",{"praise":83,"objections":102,"requests":120,"questions":147,"alternatives":163},[84,95],{"value":85,"source":73,"evidence":86},"Cool idea and useful for teaching and streaming",[87,91],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"21167874","thom","Really glad to see a few projects like this recently. For teaching it's _so_ good to be able to quickly help kids analyze a position (even when you have no real right to be…",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"21168279","ospohngellert","This would be an awesome tool for streaming :) You should also consider posting this on the chess subreddit: http:\u002F\u002Freddit.com\u002Fr\u002Fchess",{"value":96,"source":73,"evidence":97},"Would help clubs record competitive games",[98],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"21169498","billforsternz","This is very cool. One very important application would be simply recording competitive games. There are electronic boards that can do this, and they are ubiquitous at top level…",[103,113],{"value":104,"source":73,"evidence":105},"Physical board setup seems more hassle than free chess apps",[106,110],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"21168663","TylerE","At that point why bother with a physical board? There are tons of free chess apps that will happily run on a tablet or PC with out all this faffing about.",{"id":111,"by":108,"text":112},"21169169","Sounds more like the worst of both ... have to set up all those connections, power, still need a PC, but lacking the convenience.",{"value":114,"source":73,"evidence":115},"AR glasses would ruin the board game experience",[116],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"21168533","Aspos","Having to wear bulky glasses would ruin boardgames for me. But I see your point.",[121,136,140],{"value":122,"source":73,"evidence":123},"Release source code",[124,128,132],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"21168709","levischoen","Where’s the code?",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"21167997","malux85","Wow this is cool! Any plans to open source it? This is something I'd love to hack on. If not, anyone else wanna work on this together? email me (in my profile)",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"21170159","mustacheemperor","This inspires some nifty applications for headset\u002Feyeglass AR. 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