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I've been working on my #raspberrypi powered #chess playing robot. I hit a wall trying to implement this design: https://www.instructables.com/Chess-Robot-Raspberry-Pi-Lynxmotion-AL5D-Arm/ This week I turned to #opencode and #qwen and have been astounded at how quickly it's managed to make board and piece detection so robust, spin up a ui to calibrate, change settings, track a game. I've been ambivalent about LLMs but its hard not to be astounded by their capacity. After the technical kinks get worked out I'll take the chainsaw to an #oak cutting I've had aging in the shed for 5 years and house the whole thing on a wooden table. The #pi will be hid in a hollow book.