Is no one going to mention that the first picture is AI generated tosh? I understand that generating a picture is easier than taking a nice picture, in a nice place with a a nice camera - but the back row of the board is all white and the second row.. sort of disappears!
All the pictures for shop listing of PCB are also AI generated/modified.
LEDs look completely wonky, the magnet sensors are not there, hole pattern for through hole parts is inconsistent between pictures and none of them match gerber files or video. Amount of tiles on the board vary between 7 and 9. Size of MCU board relative PCB is way bigger than it should be in real life. And of course MCU board itself is also a mess.
It's already bad for the DIY project, but if you are selling something even a single crappy picture would have been better.
I spent far too long trying to work out what was wrong that image, and I was going to say that I didn't like how the bezel ate into the edge squares, until I realised it was AI generated
I think they took the third photo, which is very similar but looks real, and asked an AI to touch it up in some way. Then they probably didn't look very closely at the result.
Yea i hate this trend. I can understand why one would do it for text-only blogs/articles, but for something like this?
The actual product already looks really good, adjust some colors or lighting and that's perfect for a title image
Cute and I'm glad someone is doing that, but it's too small and out of proportion for tournaments etc. You want squares of about 2.25 inches and king height of 3.75 inches, about. If you're going to all the trouble of magnetic sensors and whatnot, you might as well make the board and pieces meet the relevant standards.
These days, image recognition is good enough that it's probably feasible to just video the chess game on a non-sensory board, and let software figure out what moves were played. In cases of doubt or dispute (blitz scrambles), humans can examine the video.
If anyone cares, the tournament sensory sets that most organizers use are made by DGT and cost around $600 iirc. The magnetic sensor system is very clever and was patented in the 1990s or so, but the patents would be expired by now.
The DGT Pegasus [1], which is designed for online play as the device presented her, costs 189 Euro. I know one of the founders of DGT and once applied there for a job for the app development, but did not feel that there was a match at the moment also because I am not really into chess.
"I appreciate your work, but that AI generated image is very disturbing and shouldn't be promoting your own work, which is so much more than an AI slab."
I've been thinking about something like that for a while but never got to working on it: having to design, order and wait for a pcb to get fabricated and shipped half way across the world, only to find out that you messed something up is insanely off putting. I so wish this process gets democratized in the future the way 3d printing and laser cutting did ~10 years ago.
[+] [-] ajw287|11 months ago|reply
[+] [-] Karliss|11 months ago|reply
LEDs look completely wonky, the magnet sensors are not there, hole pattern for through hole parts is inconsistent between pictures and none of them match gerber files or video. Amount of tiles on the board vary between 7 and 9. Size of MCU board relative PCB is way bigger than it should be in real life. And of course MCU board itself is also a mess.
It's already bad for the DIY project, but if you are selling something even a single crappy picture would have been better.
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[+] [-] throwaway81523|11 months ago|reply
These days, image recognition is good enough that it's probably feasible to just video the chess game on a non-sensory board, and let software figure out what moves were played. In cases of doubt or dispute (blitz scrambles), humans can examine the video.
If anyone cares, the tournament sensory sets that most organizers use are made by DGT and cost around $600 iirc. The magnetic sensor system is very clever and was patented in the 1990s or so, but the patents would be expired by now.
[+] [-] fjfaase|11 months ago|reply
[1] https://dgtshop.com/products/chess-boards/dgt-pegasus
[+] [-] rurban|11 months ago|reply
The C++ code is a bit naive, but easily extendable to use a proper engine. https://github.com/Concept-Bytes/Open-Chess/blob/main/Chess....
[+] [-] _factor|11 months ago|reply
A few wires later and a model scale up and your chess board can be a different size.
I suppose one piece is easier and cleaner, just less flexible.
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[+] [-] MS27|11 months ago|reply
"I appreciate your work, but that AI generated image is very disturbing and shouldn't be promoting your own work, which is so much more than an AI slab."
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