Latest revision as of 06:25, 28 October 2019

Chessboard Move Recorder

see e.g. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/26643#26643

Motivation

see MagneticSensorChessBoard1987

Parts List

#	part	example sources	documents	~ price
1	Chessboard	Schachversand Ullrich	Wikipedia	25 €
2	Chess pieces	Schachversand Ullrich	Wikipedia	25 €
3	Raspberry PI	Amazon	Wikipedia	45 €
4	Web Camera	Amazon	Raspberry PI compatibility list (german)	60 €
5	USB Powerbank	Amazon		15 €
6	16 GByte Micro SD Card	Amazon		5 €

Pictures

First Prototype

Second Prototype

Installation

see

Raspberry_PI for Raspberry PI software installation
Raspberry PI WebCam for the WebCam installation.

Projects

UCI compatible GUIs

XBoard

see XBoard

Open Source Projects

Commercial

http://webcamchess.fr/

Links

Research

Stackexchange

Videos

Difference between revisions of "Raspberry PI Chessboard Camera"

Latest revision as of 06:25, 28 October 2019

Contents

Chessboard Move Recorder

Motivation

Parts List

Pictures

First Prototype

Second Prototype

Installation

Projects

UCI compatible GUIs

XBoard

Open Source Projects

Commercial

Links

Research

Stackexchange

Videos

Navigation menu

Search

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 = Chessboard Move Recorder =
 see e.g. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/26643#26643
+== Motivation ==
+see {{Link|target=MagneticSensorChessBoard1987}}
 = Parts List =
@@ Line 40: / Line 42: @@
 = Pictures =
+== First Prototype ==
 [[File:SAM_9947.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9949.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9951.JPG|400px]]
 [[File:chess34563.jpg]]
+== Second Prototype ==
+[[File:SAM_9955.JPG|400px]]
+[[File:SAM_9962.JPG|400px]]
 = Installation =
@@ Line 48: / Line 54: @@
 * {{Link|target=Raspberry PI WebCam}} for the WebCam installation.
-= Projects =
+{{:WebCamBasedChess}}
-== CV_Chess ==
-Trying out the CV_Chess project from https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess
-Fork of it at:
-* https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/
-=== Installation ===
-<source lang='bash'>
-git clone  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/
-./installOpenCV
-./install
-</source>
-=== Test ===
-<source lang='bash' highlight='1,10'>
-./test
-============================= test session starts ==============================
-platform linux -- Python 3.7.3, pytest-5.2.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.13.0
-rootdir: /home/wf/source/python/ESE205-CVChess
-collected 2 items
-test_camera.py .                                                         [ 50%]
-test_webcam.py .                                                         [100%]
-============================== 2 passed in 3.87s ===============================
-</source>
-=== Preview ===
-<source lang='python'>
-# see https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_gui/py_video_display/py_video_display.html
-import numpy as np
-import cv2
-cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
-while(True):
-    # Capture frame-by-frame
-    ret, frame = cap.read()
-    # Our operations on the frame come here
-    #gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
-    # Display the resulting frame
-    cv2.imshow('Camera',frame)
-    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
-        break
-# When everything done, release the capture
-cap.release()
-cv2.destroyAllWindows()
-</source>
-start the above code - stop by pressing 'q'
-<source lang='bash' hightlight='1'>
-python3 preview.py
-</source>
-[[File:chesspic2019-10-15_1627.png|400px]]
-== Run ==
-<source lang='bash'>
-./run
-</source>
-[[File:CV_ChessStep1.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep2.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep3.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep4.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep5.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep6.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_ChessStep7.png|240px]]
-[[File:CV_Chess_Identified.png|400px]]
-== Project details ==
-The project was an effort of some 200 hours
-See also https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess_Logs
-== Code Structure ==
-Click classes to view source code
-<uml>
-  hide circle
-  class ChessEng [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/ChessEng.py]] {
-    updateMove(move)
-    feedToAI()
-  }
-  class Board [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Board.py]] {
-     draw(image)
-     assignState()
-     determineChanges(previous,current)
-  }
-  class Game [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Game.py]] {
-     setUp()
-     analyzeBoard()
-     checkBoardIsSet()
-     playerMove()
-     playerPromotion()
-     CPUMove()
-     updateCurrent()
-  }
-  class Camera [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Camera.py]] {
-     takePicture()
-  }
-  class Square [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Square.py]]{
-    draw(image,color,thickness)
-    drawROI(image,color,thickness)
-    roiColor(image)
-    classify(image)
-  }
-  class board_Recognition [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/board_Recognition.py]]{
-    initialize_Board()
-    clean_Image(image)
-    initialize_mask(adaptiveThresh,img)
-    findEdges(image)
-    findLines(edges,colorEdges)
-    findCorners(horizontal,vertical,colorEdges)
-    findSquares(corners,colorEdges)
-  }
-  class Line [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Line.py]] {
-    find_intersection(other)
-  }
-  class Application [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/OOPGUI.py]]{
-     StartGamePage(tk.Frame)
-     InitializeBoardPage(tk.Frame)
-     ChooseColorPage(tk.Frame)
-     SetBoardPage(tk.Frame)
-     PlayerMovePage(tk.Frame)
-     CPUMovePage(tk.Frame)
-     CheckPage(tk.Frame)
-     CPUMoveErrorPage(tk.Frame)
-     PlayerMoveErrorPage(tk.Frame)
-     GameOverPage(tk.Frame)
-     ChooseDifficultyPage(tk.Frame)
-     ChoosePromotionPage(tk.Frame)
-  }
-  Application -- "1 game" Game
-  Game -- "1 camera" Camera
-  Game -- "1 chessEngine" ChessEng
-  Game -- "1 board" Board
-  Game -- "1 boardRec" board_Recognition
-  board_Recognition -- "1 camera" Camera
-  Board -- "n squares" Square
-  board_Recognition -- "n lines" Line
-</uml>
-=== Issues ===
-see also https://github.com/rjgoodloe/ESE205-CVChess/issues
-[[File:CV_ChessDetection.png|800px]]
-The board detection algorithm does not make sure that squares are really squares.
-== play-chess-with-a-webcam ==
-* http://blogdugas.net/blog/2015/05/18/play-chess-with-a-webcam/
-= UCI compatible GUIs =
-== XBoard ==
-<source lang='bash'>
-sudo apt-get install xboard polyglot stockfish
-xboard -fUCI -fcp stockfish -sUCI -scp stockfish
-</source>
-[[File:XBoard2019-10-19.png|400px]]
-= Open Source Projects =
-* https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess
-* https://github.com/swenae/chesscam
-* http://www.romanmueller.de/chesscamera
-= Commercial =
-* http://webcamchess.fr/
-= Links =
-* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface
-* https://buildmedia.readthedocs.org/media/pdf/python-chess/
-* https://en.chessbase.com/post/how-to-build-your-own-usb-electronic-che-board
-* https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/chess-board-raspberry-pi/
-* https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/220915/python-chess-game
-* https://hobbylark.com/board-games/Top-5-Free-Chess-GUIs-for-UCI-Engines
-* https://www.chessprogramming.org
-* https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCI
-* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27520991/opencv-best-way-to-detect-corners-on-chessboard
-* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5906170/detecting-chess-moves-from-successive-image-differences-using-opencv-tools
-* http://www.nandanbanerjee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:buttercup-chess-robot&catid=78&Itemid=470
-* https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/4751#4751
-* http://cs.uef.fi/~franti/chesscam/
-* https://www.fide.com/contacts
-* https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infivention/square-off-worlds-smartest-chess-board-relaunched
-* https://www.heise.de/make/projekte/ChessCamera-Schachcomputer-mit-Bilderkennung-2170835.html
-= Videos =
-<youtube>qbpO1hS_rPE</youtube>
-<youtube>WYtYjKqd0_w</youtube>
-<youtube>APkoE1UDKj0</youtube>
-<youtube>B0iC4IBW2IM</youtube>
-<youtube>_tnWQCPmdgw</youtube>
-<youtube>kONz-gURM88</youtube>
-<youtube>AQLOj-TylGg</youtube>
-<youtube>RkvNJ3yiIrk</youtube>
 [[Category:Raspberry]]
+[[Category:Chess]]