Amazing Computer Board on Kickstarter

[jshriver]

Wanted to share because this product looks amazing. I ended up getting the Plus unit. It can be used against various engines, interface with your cell phone. It also can interface directly with lichess which I find amazing.

Thought you all might be interested.

[MikeB]

Everyone should know that more than 75% of Kickstarter hardware projects fail.

I once invested in a retractable dog leash project and even that one failed.

[towforce]

Everyone should know that more than 75% of Kickstarter hardware projects fail.

Makes sense: the general rule for specific investments (as opposed to general investments like funds, unit trusts, exchange traded funds etc) is that by the time they reach the non-expert public, they've already crossed the desks of, and have been rejected by, 100 or so experts.

With this particular product, it looks good to me, and a very nicely packaged product (if it all works as well as easily and as well as shown on the video). The problem is that it has literally nothing that hasn't been done before in one form or another, and thus my biggest fear is that not enough of the people who might buy it will find out about it.

[jshriver]

With this particular product, it looks good to me, and a very nicely packaged product (if it all works as well as easily and as well as shown on the video). The problem is that it has literally nothing that hasn't been done before in one form or another, and thus my biggest fear is that not enough of the people who might buy it will find out about it.

Good points, but it looks like a hot item. Some of the pre-sell packages have close to or more than 1k people each who are already buying. Out of their 30k initial goal its already at 1.2Million right now. So this seems very well received.

On a long shot I emailed them to see if they were open to allowing other engines, or a api or framework. I was responded to in just a few hours and they are working on it and are open to discussing it with open source developers and building an open source community with it.

Im excited.

Though I understand the previous posters point too. I was a backer for the Parallella.

[JohnW]

I saw this other new one yesterday which I thought sounded good:

[cpeters]

Hey Joshua!


jshriver wrote:

It can be used against various engines, interface with your cell phone.

Jeff Wigh/Projectfounder on Kickstarter wrote:

We are still figuring our how extensive we will make the API for the board. That is a 2022 project, but connecting and playing through the computer is something we may open up for 3rd party people to develop, We have lots of emails and messages from people eager to add their own programs to the platform - so that is a real possibility in the future.

May...possibility...future.

I'm a backer for this thing also and I think I will get something like a playstation: a flashyblinking appliance - closed platform* for paid 'content'/lessons (well, a bit more, but sort of). If it's becoming anything different: hooray - if not, it'll hopefully be a modern little chesscomputer with some very well-thought unique features for an acceptable price. No wooden cabinet though!


It has potential and is an exciting project, yes.

*think of chessking app...


Greetings


Chessnut:
There's nothing yet. Not even a (registered) company, or do you know one? Patents they write on their site? For what/by whom? Issued when?
It gets built till august for 99/199 bucks? Yessir, please, gimme!

[Jonathan003]

Wanted to share because this product looks amazing. I ended up getting the Plus unit. It can be used against various engines, interface with your cell phone. It also can interface directly with lichess which I find amazing.

Thought you all might be interested.

Thanks for the link.
Looks great!
Maybe it will become my next chess computer.

[M ANSARI]

Looks interesting but what is the hardware for the chess engine?

[phhnguyen]

Looks interesting but what is the hardware for the chess engine?

I think nowadays Raspberry Pi is almost the solution for such a small space/board.

[Milos]

Looks interesting but what is the hardware for the chess engine?

Whatever hardware it is, it's able to run SF which means it can destroy Carlsen or any human on max strength. So unless you are gonna use it for analysis hardware is totally irrelevant.