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Robot Picks up Othello

Robot Picks up Othello

Experience is a great teacher. Ask [Jeneus], who, in high school, tried to make a program that played Othello. But years later, the idea produced an impressive ….

At first glance, the robot looks a bit like a 3D printer with an aluminum extrusion XYZ motion system. But there’s a lot more to it, not to mention the software to play the game. The Z-axis has a vacuum system that can pick up clear tokens and place them on the board.

If you know the game, you might remember that on a real board, players have to flip the tokens as they “capture” pieces. The tokens are clear because they are lit with one of two colors. So flipping the token is a simple LED color change.


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