I took Taser Chess to Open Sauce

this is taser chest oh my God I was tired of losing all my money to chess Hustlers so I built taser chest to see if I could improve my game with some negative reinforcement my plan was to practice with the board until I could return to the park and claim a win this is the story of my year-long adventure building the board and all the victories heartbreaks new friends and life lessons I picked up along the way taking inspiration from the experts I bought a t unit to deliver the shocks it's supposed to be a medical device but turn it up high enough the difference is that it hurts people and responds by tasing you this to deliver power to each of the 64 squares of the chess board it uses four of these relay boards with 16 relays each the relays are a bit terrifying when they click on and off but they're just switches the actual shock comes from completing a full circuit with your body so the tens goes through each of the relays up through the metal squares into metal pieces and straight into your arm when it's connected to the other end of the [Music] tense this means that everything has to be conductive so I crafted a beautiful set of custom metal pieces just kidding I don't know how to use a lathe was that a lath I found a set on Amazon but the varnish on them didn't conduct so I used varnish remover basically high power acetone to rub away the coating I kept as much of the color as I could so that you can still tell the pieces apart but removed it anywhere you'd have to touch to lift a piece then removed the felt from the bottoms and melted those down until they were conductive too as a note to aspiring burglers I found out the hard way that getting lacquer remover on your fingers really Smooths them out fill in any remaining cracks with construction adhesive and you basically have no fingerprints left or if you want to be really thorough you can just burn your prints off with a soldering iron I needed a way to track where pieces move so I bought a pack of key caps like you would find on a mechanical keyboard and switches to act as buttons underneath the squares switches come in packs of 65 which was really handy for my 64 Square chest boort after nearly burning my house down with a dozen designs for the board squares I finally got one working I set circular magnets in Wood underneath metal squares and magnets in the bottom of the pieces to help the switches come back up when pieces are lifted this also adds enough weight so the light pieces push down the switches and it keeps the pieces centered on the squares I covered half the squares in copper tape so that they'd be a different color but still conductive on top at this point we were ready to test out the full circuit on a single Square okay we're on Burst Mode on one I might not have told my buddy this was the first test ever but good news it works oh so what does the board consider a bad move and how does it track them well here's me from eight months ago to tell you just how simple it is so we're not going to track every piece individually if the board and I agree on a starting position I just need to know when I lifted a piece and when I put it back down they're going to be four basic modes programmed in here so on illegal mode if it's my turn and I touch this Rook I'm going to get a zap because I can't lift it if I've taken this pawn and lifted it the whole board electrifies except for these two squares where I could put it you can play against the engine which is running stockfish on a Raspberry Pi so if you make a particularly bad move you place a blunder then you get a shock for that a timed game will let you set a total time for each turn so it's not the total time of the game but I say have 5 Seconds to make my move and if I take too long I can still make my move as long as I want I'm just going to get shocked for it it also has over a million pre-loaded chest puzzles to solve so it'll tell you on the display where to put pieces and then you have to guess the correct moves without getting a shock obviously the board can't make moves for itself so it'll let you know on the display which piece to move and where to move it if you screw that up you'll get a shock too I think we've got everything we need so now I just have to build it easy at that point I had to leave on some extended travel so I was trying to build without all my regular gear this also meant no soldering most of the time so lots of loose wires and breadboards which made it a little tough to work out the circuits the Raspberry Pi runs a python chess package to keep track of the board State everything is powered by the biggest light Po battery I could find that's still allowed on a plane the battery even came with this handy adapter for free which will make it even easier to connect the power wires after getting kicked out of an Airbnb from my suspicious activities I got a case for the Raspberry Pi so I could keep programming it without scaring the Muggles I tried sneaking my work into a bar but it was too dark to wire anything up at one point I accidentally ended up in a cat cafe which maybe wasn't the best place to wire up breadboards since I didn't have my laser cutter I had to make do with a box and some scraps the first prototype was made out of a literal diaper box suffice it to say this wasn't ideal working conditions I used my spare switch to find out that the metal tabs on the switches were too small and brittle to connect to anything directly but I had a bunch of leftover copper tape scraps so I spent hours wrapping those around the switch wires and shoving them into to connectors and then a I broke a tab on my very last switch and had to order a whole new pack the few times I did get to solder it was usually a disaster I was really proud of the job I did soldering pins to the display until I realized I don't know if you could see that it's the wrong side of the board I'd never realized how large a number 64 is I had to do 64 or 192 or 256 of everything building squares wiring switches connecting relays then I had the brilliant idea of telling Open sauce I could present at their maker fair in a month please don't submit things that you promised that you you'll have done by Open sauce yeah I had already been building for months and if anything my chess game was getting worse because I spent all my time messing with wires I figured a deadline might help me slog through to get a working board got a picture of something and then we basically judge if we think you're going to get it done in time it's obvious it's actually really obvious I think I think we might be in trouble buddy we finally got home with a week to go before Open sauce and I started laser cutting like mad I'd originally imagined everything fitting neatly inside the acrylic case but I realized that there just wasn't going to be enough room for all the parts with 4 days remaining it was really coming down to the wire I had to start thinking outside the box I screwed together some wooden boards as a base to hold everything then then made more acrylic shells to hold all the lights and buttons on the side with all the switches finally in place it actually looked kind of beautiful then things started going downhill a few of my connectors snapped off the speaker wire I used was too thick and stiff so the squares kept getting stuck and wouldn't sit flat I didn't have time to buy anything else so I scavenged the ethernet cable from my router to get enough thin wire I also didn't have time to solder so of course I attached thin wires to metal plates with duct tape my copper foil connectors were failing half the time so I used conductive epoxy to keep the switches shoved into the connectors the night before my early morning flight with the board just functional enough to demo I finally had a stroke of luck completely by chance because of course I hadn't thought that far ahead the board fit perfectly into an old carry-on suitcase there wasn't much room for extra padding but that didn't matter I was going to carry it on and never let it out of my sight yeah so they made me check it at the gate apparently my old bag no longer qualified for carryon there's my baby upside down I made them cover the bag in fragile stickers then got to watch from the plane while months of work were destroyed in an instant they landed onto a hard surface thanks Alaska Airlines I glued the acrylic board back together outside because my hotel room had basically no ventilation which is a great way to inhale acrylic dust I rebuilt everything I could through the rest of the day and night after a couple hours of sleep I got to open sauce early to finish wiring the board and I hooked up the circuit backward and nearly started a fire I only knew because of the smell of burning plastic but found a few holes melted in my power rail afterward but eventually I got everything wired up and duct tape together Moment of Truth yes yes look at all those glorious lights it was finally Showtime I wasn't allowed to shock attendees directly but if I happen to hold someone's wrist while they touched a piece they could get an idea of what the lowest level of tingle felt [Music] like as part of the circuit I was getting shocked every time too but I'd shocked myself so much building the board that I hardly noticed anymore apparently it takes a lot to shock electri then he tased me back with some terrifying wandy build it's rare to catch a villain's origin story on camera this was the day I realized that while my chess game might not have improved I was really good at shocking people and really enjoyed it I bought a case for my return flight that cost more than the rest of the project but I had to keep the board safe this time and the case got delayed in shipping so I ended up Rush packing everything again at this point it was so tempting to just give up but hundreds of dollars later I'd vowed to win five bucks off a chess Hustler and if there was one thing I'd gotten really good at it was definitely not chess it was rebuilding this damn board but when I'd finally rewired everything and got to use it for some games half the time the tens just wouldn't deliver a shock at all anymore I feel something but it's really low I decided to take the board to see a man with a hat Joel knows something about shock oh yeah and then you're putting a lot of trust in those little uh slide connectors did you make a matrix I should have but I didn't they're all individually wired oh gosh see you have it so far up your arm that's going to make it worse too yeah Joel gave me a lot of great tips and when the board was cooperating we got to try it out at level 8 out of eight just place the piece down most of the reactions I've shown are at a two or three out of eight Joel is showing monk likee control here and being able to put a piece down without making a mess of the whole board that's impressive look at my look at my arm holy I didn't Fair as well I bit my tongue I also got a chance to try out Joel's tasing keyboard [Music] once you get off the horse it's hard to get back on with Joel's tips I was able to simplify some of the wiring for the board back at home but it still wasn't shocking reliably finally after hours of tracking down random voltage drops I worked out that the battery adapter itself was the loose connection so after some more terrible soldering I finally got the whole board working consistently it was time to head back to the park for a rematch on my terms the hustlers were mostly too StreetWise to play on my board I pay you five bucks to play T Test what happen so I set up my own table and eventually got some takers including a couple of the local Hustlers once they saw it in action unfortunately by then I'd played a dozen matches and my single- use 10 pads just weren't very conductive so it was mostly a helpful distraction for the other Hustlers nearby in the end I still couldn't win any matches against the pros but I did eventually win their hearts and their social media handles shout out my YouTube channel

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Length: 12min 40sec (760 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 22 2024