Our project is a robotic arm attached to a chessboard that allows a human to play against a chess bot controlling the arm in a physical match. This is most certainly a passion project, and it was through the lessons learned in V.R. Eaton High School’s computer science classes and Reach Robotics Club, which all 3 of us are students in, that we were able to create the bot. Our computer science classes taught us not only how to code the bot but the problem-solving skills necessary for solving a variety of issues we ran into during construction, our robotics club taught us various lessons in the design process and the construction of complex machines like our arm.
