If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

And the Raspberry Turk — a chess-playing robot from developer Joey Meyer — is a masterwork in that regard, serving as a way to learn everything from machine vision to robotics to AI.

He’s using an Arduino Mega that connects to the host PC via a Python script. The AI can be any chess engine that uses the Universal Chess Interface protocol, which [Oriol] points out that most ...