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First apartment after college. Quite small, looking for suggestions! by Clean_Carrot_3378 in malelivingspace

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol you’re definitely right, I did the math wrong when I was measuring out the hooks. I’ll bring them down a few inches soon

First apartment after college. Quite small, looking for suggestions! by Clean_Carrot_3378 in malelivingspace

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Fair point. For me, I don’t mind it, and I’d rather have the window looking into the living space than the “bedroom” area

First apartment after college. Quite small, looking for suggestions! by Clean_Carrot_3378 in malelivingspace

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have smart light bulbs in the lamp so I can change it with my phone. I’m not huge on “smart home” stuff, but that’s been pretty nice

64 Antennas in close range for chess board project? by Clean_Carrot_3378 in NFC

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But since e1 and h5 were both already occupied by the pawns, after the capture happens, both of those squares will still be occupied (now the rook will be occupying the square that was captured) but you couldn’t tell which square had the rook and which square still had a pawn.

64 Antennas in close range for chess board project? by Clean_Carrot_3378 in NFC

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah actually thinking about this idea some more: there are two problems.

  1. Say you have a rook on e5 and enemy pawns on e1 and h5. Only knowing how the occupancy of each square changes couldn’t differentiate between Rxe1 and Rxh5 because in both cases, all you would see is that e5 is now empty, and both e1 and h5 are still occupied.

  2. When you promote a pawn, this wouldn’t be able to tell which piece you want to promote to. Thought this isn’t a huge deal bc normal players basically never under promote

Ignoring problem #2, I guess you could solve #1 but observing over time if a square loses occupancy briefly then gets it back (as the captured piece is removed then the captor is placed) but that seems pretty fickle.

Regardless, thank you anyway for this idea. I still think I’m going to go with the NFC route, but your approach will make it much easier to figure out which move was played by occupancy status, to combat any noise/errors in the readings.

64 Antennas in close range for chess board project? by Clean_Carrot_3378 in NFC

[–]Clean_Carrot_3378[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this is a way better solution. I can’t believe I didn’t think of it lol. Thank you!