I didn’t even realize it was you who commented! that means so much to me, especially coming from you. Even with my project using plywood, haha. Love your content and that cinematography…dang!
I had an idea which could look nice. Make a tiny hole in the middle of every tile. when a chess piece is placed down then an LED is turned on and illuminates the resin chess piece.
some times i love youtube algorithm to suggest these type of incredible videos to watch . why you are so underrated bro with such dedication to your craft.
@@hobbybuilt See if you can vary the magnetic strength enough to tell which piece is which? There's a lot of possibility in this already amazing build!
ideas: - more magnets! hook each piece to movable magnetic field to be auto-controllable by a stockfish, leave enough space between the pieces for others to move through - individually colored squares! blue -- chilling, red -- the whole board is attacking me - eval line -- a white led strip on next to the squares - colored paths: color-code show where a piece can be after 1, 2 or 3 moves. green highlight the theory line It would be such a cool studying tool!
@@hobbybuilt nah don't worry bro u r good disclaimer only, this much - i use this words not to critisize u for only 1k subs u have got 5.3k+views in just 4 days so u r in a good pace and u have got ur self a new subscriber
Lasers! Use lasers to make the grid so you dont have to use cutouts, maybe even do a crazy almost chaotic design but have the grid light up through the material, use light anyway if you want the board to be invisible
I was going to say a similar thing - have no cut-outs on the top surface, so that it is completely smooth, but cut-out from below, thin enough so that the light still shines through when playing. Still very impressive though!
Firstly, sorry for my bad english, that's not my main language The way you talk about you build is so good, for me the things that are missing are some titles during 3D parts where you show what you're about to do. Beside that, your video making skills are stunning, you deserve so much more
First off - excellent work. My comments are not at all a takeaway from the job you did. IMO The design requirement of making it appear uniform when not lit means that the checkerboard grid of light/dark squares wasn’t attempted. If I had to make a suggestion, I would do thin pieces of veneer epoxy that is marbled to look like wood when not lit, but allows light to pass through when lit. Getting the grain right is near impossible but if you could do it you’d be untouchable with this. Also, when taping the grid I’d suggest using 3D printed shims or layup guides to ensure even spacing and squareness between tiles. Loved watching this!
This is a reaaaallly cool board you made! I do have a suggestion for Chessboard V2. Instead of having the outlines have RGB. Make it so that there is an LED shining through each chess piece. When connected to a magnetic sensor. It could then detect when the pieces are on the spot. And this way you can colour them making it visible from ALL angles.
Thank you!! 😊 give it a go you could do a simplified one to start. Acrylic, wood veneer and the leds. I was almost about to manually cut the veneer with a utility knife for a really thin line.
As a german carpenter of 10 years i can say without a doubt this is almost masterpiece worthy, I mean it is a masterpiece but if it had a hand made drawer with a lock you really could show up to your carpertry mastersdegree with this as the accumulation and prove of your skills.
Well thank you for the kind words. I love the idea of a wooden drawer. As much as I would like to call myself a woodworker I would need to checkoff more items to get there!
You asked for a suggestion so here it is. Maybe there’s a way to illuminate a chess piece that lands on a square by making the space touch sensitive? Maybe a disk magnet with a hole in the center and the board senses it’s presence? There’s an led in the center of each square that only illuminates when a chess piece is above it. Why not take advantage of the transparency of the pieces. By the way, I think what you’ve built it really beautifully made and very imaginative. I’m extremely impressed and instantly subscribed as I don’t want to miss further projects.
Subbed within 10 seconds of starting the video, this project is fantastic, but honestly if you were going for the invisible look I think if you used the thinnest possible veneer you can get your hands on as a top layer, it would be thin enough for the light to shine through and give you the effect you're looking for, maybe.
Looks amazing. If you're going for completely hidden, you could maybe use a thin veneer on the top. Kind of like those veneer alarm clocks you see sometimes
Just wanted to stop and say that your level of craftsmanship and technique was really cool to watch. I don't really comment often but this was worth commenting on. You deserve more subscribers for sure. I hope your channel grows, you definitely deserve it!
Nice setup you have there. The final result looks pretty good! Something you could do in the future is use hall effect sensors to light up squares where there is a piece. Congrats on a great build!
I was gonna get mad about the non-alternating color scheme that chess boards usually have because it makes it harder for me to see the diagonals, but with the way the outlines were made, it seems even easier to track the diagonal. Beautiful piece.
Cool project and great job! There are a lot of options to upgrade and continue this project. I think about automatic chess timer relaunch when player makes his turn. That will be really smart chessboard. But that's another story.
i feel like a good followup for this would be: overengineering my overengineered chess board, where u add an engine and buy a chess computer for this project... would love to see such a thing
To make it invisible put black illusion paper on top to cover the whole thing this way when you turn it on the lights are only visible and when it's off nothing else is
I watch similar DIY videos and the algorithm led me to the channel of yours - and gladly so. The editing and commentary are well done and I was entertained all the way through. Also have been watching your video on the zen garden thingy which was by far less complex of a build but was not any less beautiful and watchworthy. Keep it up and I'm sure this channel will grow tremendously - it'd deserve it! Cheers.
since the leds are individually controllable you could modify the board with sensors for the magnets and have it display the tiles that each piece can move to wen you pick it up
very cool! ...the next version should have som light emitting through clear pieces. So that placing them on a its spot would make them glowing. That would be even more cool
OK, SO... Incredible project. Don't get me wrong. I love the look, I love everything about it. But it's not what I *thought* you were going to make? When I saw you were making a chessboard with acrylic cutouts, LED illumination, and magnets...I thought it was gonna be like...super-duper smart. Hall effect sensors to track the position of pieces...individual LED control for the various squares, maybe inbuilt start/stop buttons for speed chess? So, maybe for the second project - try something like this? For illuminating the individual squares - consider LED strips with a *wider* LED spacing, configured so you only need *one* RGB LED under each square. Then you do a simple grid and keep track of which pixel numbers correspond to which squares, and you can do some cool stuff. Incorporate hall effect sensors as well, and you could configure it for "tele-chess". You could literally have software watching both sides of the board, and as long as you "zero" it at the start of a new game, you should be able to track the movements of "local" players, and then when a "remote" player makes a move, light up the square under their piece and the target place. Then, for extra cool factor - make the pieces somewhat translucent as well, this way they light up with the board?
This is so impressive and you're insanely talented. Keep up the good work! Not to sound like the oldest dude on the internet but try to reduce the "um's" in the voiceovers and that alone will add the video!
Crazy additional idea to help beginners, but make it so each space pushes down just a bit, add something that detects different kind of pieces, and then have the spaces it can move from where it is, light up when the piece is pushed down
I love finding gems like this in my recommendations. Small bit of feedback: your voice volume is a bit too low, might want to turn it up a bit or adjust the mixing with the music :)
At first I want to say that your work is amazing, and if some company sold boards like that, I‘d buy them. But I think, you could have handled the magnets under the pieces better, so that they you couldn’t see them. Although that, Love your work, well done
I‘ve seen products, where the LEDs are hidden under the veneer, without the cutouts. It’ll probably need some trying out, as to how thin the veneer needs to be, but it could work as well for such a project since you wanted to „disguise“ the chessboard.
You should add chatgpt / stockfish to it so that you can play by yourself and play against an ai. When the ai moves, make the corresponding squares light up.
Awesome work, i do love how you've not gone traditional with different colored squares, all same colour makes it a decorative piece 👍 and i love the printed hinges
i love it, would love a folding travel size to take to work, with only the light squres illuminated and fully cut out, but diffused. we play daily on lunch.
This is great!!! Thank you algorithm for showing me this incredible build from this talented creator! Some suggestions for V2.0: - Glow in the dark pieces would be great. - Maybe a timer built into the board for each player. They get set amount of time to think about their move and hit a button on their side of the board when they're done. And when the player takes too long to play, the timer runs out and the whole board lights up red.
Thank you thank you!!! Glad you liked it. Love the glow in the dark piece idea and I actually wanted to add a built in timer but this project was beginning to become a month long journey so I had to wrap it up.
That the exact length breadth and depth a RUclips build video should be, for someone just starting out it shows a hell of a lot of promise. subscribed...done.
You could put a small copper coil in each square are power them, and then you put one in each piece and wire it to an led. And make a system so when you place a piece on the board the square lights up brighter
It's an incredible build. Even the parts you weren't satisfied with were still awesome. The only suggestion I've got for V1 would be to epoxy fill the board grooves, and sand everything flat. That would somewhat make them less noticeable. Either way, if I had the extra cash, I'd try to commission one, and never think twice about the decision. Keep up the great work!
I experimented with that, was so close to doing it but even the thinnest of veneers threw off the RGB colors so much because certain wavelengths not being able to get through.
Didn't even realize it was supposed to be a hidden board till the end. I was just sitting here thinking "Man, I gotta learn to do that" to basically every step.
Just a quick idea but to make the square more invisible have you tried milling from the underside of the top? It would keep the top of the board flawless but still allow the led lights to shine through and out line the cuts.
Did some testing on this but didn’t show in the video. Unfortunately the LED lights looked horrible shinning through the wood veneer. This would have been ideal for sure.
What a fun and inspiring project, well done and great editing! Would be cool with a programmable chess computer built in and perhaps glow in the dark pieces? I need your gadgets...😍
Very very nice! If you had a way to detect which pieces were where you could have the ESP32 indicate valid moves when a piece is picked up. Also an integrated timer would be a neat touch.
I saw this video on my for you page and i was like wow i wached the video and it was great then i looked in the comment all saying ur underrated and i agree so much such a beatifull project you can be proud
You know I could have honestly but thought I could tailor the color and transparency better this way as well as the surface finish. In the beginning I wanted it crystal clear and knew I would not get that off the SLA printer I have.
Wow 🤩 beautifully crafted and very professional. Everything is very well done, just I prefer a flush top probably epoxy filled and sanded. Another fancy suggestion is a more dimly lit top while a more highlighted with chess piece in position.❤love it all the way. Subscribed
Ummmmm astounding work, sir. Simply beautiful. Okay, SO, I have zero experience in this specific level of craftsmanship, so these critiques are likely to sound naive. First, from a visual standpoint, the outer LED boarder, in my opinion, doesn't look "great" whenever it's next to a square's individual boarder. It ALmost creates a visual tangent, which in the design world, as you likely know, is unpleasing and the viewer usually can't figure out why they're unpleased. I don't think the boarder is necessary at all, actually. Secondly, and this is where the naivety will be blaring, what if instead of channels for the LEDs, the cnc machine NEARLY carves through from underneath, creating a SUPer this layer for the LEDs to shine through when on, but no visible channels when off. Anyhow, I absolutely love the techno-organic look. Great work!
Glad you liked the video! Great point for the outer boarder. I think I agree with you, It seems off. As for the led shjne through I’ve done a lot of testing with glowing through a medium like wood. The wavelength of the led is at its mercy red light blows through the wood but blue light looks yellow. Alongside that the grain structure makes the glow very inconsistent. I wanted so bad for this to work but just simply looked bad.
@ spoken like a true artist! It absolutely does NOT look bad. What about an epoxy filler, maybe in a tone, not color, that matches the wood? Dude, your stuff is beautiful and fun to watch.
Great video and very impressive work! 👏😁. For 3d printed parts and home cnc machinig, the final result look more like a final product than a prototype like mainy other youtube project. Really good job! (sorry for my english😅)
Well thank you for that, I can see all the little imperfections but glad I saw it to the end. Your English is perfect by the way, thanks again for watching.
I love how it looks and everything, but you forgot to distinguish between the black and white squares, even if some of the squares are not the same size it could still be difficult to tell
for the top not to show the squares when the lights are on u can put a thin layer of veneer on top of the entire board so that the light can bleed out through the veneer
I experimented with that and so close to doing it but even the thinnest of veneers threw off the RGB colors so much because certain wavelengths not being able to get through.
Would be awesome if each square was individually addressed and the available moves lit up on the board. Could detect when the piece was lifted using either the magnet or make the pieces conductive and have a capacitive touch sensor on each square this would also enable an automated timer
Each piece should have a small coil and LED inside. Each square should also have a coil. The pieces light up when placed over a tile even though there’s no visible light in the board. It would be like magic
Bit late to the party here, but my guess for magnets is 192. Two for each space in the board and two for each chess piece (196 if you included extra queens for pawn promotion). For future reference, if you use strong Neodymium magnets (I get mine from Apex Magnets), you'll just need one for each space and one for each piece in order to have them attract through more material. The neodymium magnets I use (5mmx5mm cylinder in the board and 1/4"x1/4" cylinder in the pieces) are strong enough to attract the pieces through about 3/16" of wood. As for a suggestion, 3D print yourself a Battlefield Chessboard (check my shorts if you want to know about the concept). I work with wood, so I make it out of wood, but it would be a cool and relatively easy 3D printing project. You could also use your CNC to make a wood version and save yourself from the work of power-carving with an angle grinder.
Hey man ran across this video and ended up watching a few of your other videos and i love the content. I just bought a house at the start of the year and have been doing a ton of renovations. Its my first time having an actual work space (garage) and I've been diving into custom design stuff for the house. I want to see more of your builds and ideas. I love the can light to studio light, speaker stands, and studio wall. The chess board is dope i just don't play chess. So please keep putting out videos, i love the unique way of designing projects.
@@hobbybuilt Absolutely man i love the unique designs and hope to come up with some of my own in the following years. Ive been slowly recording my efforts and just need to find the time to edit and upload. But keep up the grind, i love all the ideas and designs. Going to give me some inspiration for sure.
What an amazing build! Was really rooting for you not to screw up the polarity of any of those magnets - an almost herculean task given the number employed!
Great job, but since you asked, next time, you could have a matrix of LEDs under the chessboard so you could light up each square individually, have a hall sensor under each square. This way you could have the valid moves light up when you lift a chess piece, you could also have a training mode, so when you move a piece the computer opponents can light up the move it wants to make
Looks cool, but it's too hard to see dark and light squares. Next upgrade should be this, but it shows the squares properly and it has a built in computer telling you how to move for the computer in solo play through lighting up squares. And with some settings, you can tap pieces to show you the way they can move, including blocking pieces and then for even more advanced stuff, include a chess teacher that uses the light to tell you best moves and teach you openings and stuff.
Before you put the oak on the acrylic panel, etch for the squares on the underside of the veneer. The light will be able to pass through but you shouldn't see them when the light is off, it'll leave you with a flat surface on the top. It might be a good idea to paint some clear epoxy into the etched grooves too, since they'll be quite thin on the top and easier to accidentally break than the current design. This might be trickier to do while keeping everything aligned, but I think it's the simplest design change to hide the squares perfectly. On a personal note, I've seen some other suggestions of sensors to change the colour of a square that has a piece on it. I think that would look tacky and overdone myself - you can already tell whether a square has a piece on it, because you can see the piece, so it's not adding much other than flashy lights. You're building a chessboard, not a rave. That being said, it could also be a lot of fun so maybe do it just for that. I also think moving the spot for the pieces into slide-out drawers on either side would be a much nicer look - means you don't need to flip the board to get the pieces. Blending the veneer is tricky but doable, and you could add a pressure sensor (or even a hall effect sensor) to activate the lights when the pieces are removed, which gets rid of the on/off button. Since you can control the LED's from your phone you could remove the controller button for them too and now you've got what looks like a nice block of wood with a power cable attached to it, no indication of what it is or how to use it.
Opening the drawer would also be a bit trickier, since adding a drawer handle kind of ruins the effect. There are push-open drawer slides but might be hard to find some that are small enough for your use case. First-guess I've got there is to take inspiration from clicky pens, which I think use some sort of a cam and spring mechanism which should be fairly easy to replicate with some standard springs & 3d printing
Also lots of suggestions like valid-squares being illuminated when you lift a piece off the board, or highlighting suggested moves, or Stockfish integration. Those all sound cool but are much more complicated, because now you need to be able to uniquely identify each type of piece. It's a cool software engineering challenge since there's no easy way to make the pieces identifiable by a sensor, so you'd need to track the board from its initial (known) state and update based on every move made. That's cool as hell and if you feel confident doing it give it a try, would love to see your solution, but yeah would be a fair bit more difficult than the current software.
Great work! very impressive
I didn’t even realize it was you who commented! that means so much to me, especially coming from you. Even with my project using plywood, haha. Love your content and that cinematography…dang!
I had an idea which could look nice. Make a tiny hole in the middle of every tile. when a chess piece is placed down then an LED is turned on and illuminates the resin chess piece.
Great Idea!
Took the idea out of my head. Maybe individual Reed switches so the magnet on the bottom of each piece makes a connection turning on each led
Was thinking this same thing.
Was thinking the exact same thing!
@@hobbybuilt would be cool if you could also control the lighting to be brighter for the pieces of the player who is better positioned
some times i love youtube algorithm to suggest these type of incredible videos to watch . why you are so underrated bro with such dedication to your craft.
Thank you 🥲 glad RUclips led you to my video. I feel the same way when I’m finding videos. I don’t think RUclips understands this type of content…
Need hall effect sensors per square. Magnets in piece. Piece down, sensor on, led square lit. Cool project. Many options. Nice job!
Version 2! If i get to it haha.
NIce set! But what about rftag-s in each piece, and match supervision and log-ing? Maybe some game engine involvement, also?
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@@hobbybuilt See if you can vary the magnetic strength enough to tell which piece is which? There's a lot of possibility in this already amazing build!
@@maximusdarjaexcellent idea! I bet it’s possible.
@@hobbybuilt Even if you can't tell which piece by sensor, you can track them from the start of the game and always know what moved where
ideas:
- more magnets! hook each piece to movable magnetic field to be auto-controllable by a stockfish, leave enough space between the pieces for others to move through
- individually colored squares! blue -- chilling, red -- the whole board is attacking me
- eval line -- a white led strip on next to the squares
- colored paths: color-code show where a piece can be after 1, 2 or 3 moves. green highlight the theory line
It would be such a cool studying tool!
loving the danger indicator idea!
If you genuinely want this theres a few board online that do this exact thing.
@@Agoosemanoose I'm all ears if you have any recommendations
Why is this so underrated, everyone needs to get over here and see this.
Thank you for watching and commenting this! Cmon RUclips algorithm, I spent 100’s of hours on this 😅
@@hobbybuilt I believe you. Even the editing is top notch.
@@hobbybuilt This really is fantastic work! Incredibly beautiful chess board, man. Good luck. With content like this, you're going places!
@@BEdmonson85 Thank you 🙏
@@hobbybuilt nah don't worry bro u r good
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only, this much - i use this words not to critisize u
for only 1k subs u have got 5.3k+views in just 4 days so u r in a good pace and u have got ur self a new subscriber
Lasers! Use lasers to make the grid so you dont have to use cutouts, maybe even do a crazy almost chaotic design but have the grid light up through the material, use light anyway if you want the board to be invisible
Very interesting!
I was going to say a similar thing - have no cut-outs on the top surface, so that it is completely smooth, but cut-out from below, thin enough so that the light still shines through when playing. Still very impressive though!
really underrated for how professional he is
this is a quality video
Thanks for the kind words!
Firstly, sorry for my bad english, that's not my main language
The way you talk about you build is so good, for me the things that are missing are some titles during 3D parts where you show what you're about to do. Beside that, your video making skills are stunning, you deserve so much more
@@quentinmaguy3096 Thank you for the kind words! Glad you liked it. Good call I was a little rushed for the 3D prints.
First off - excellent work. My comments are not at all a takeaway from the job you did. IMO The design requirement of making it appear uniform when not lit means that the checkerboard grid of light/dark squares wasn’t attempted. If I had to make a suggestion, I would do thin pieces of veneer epoxy that is marbled to look like wood when not lit, but allows light to pass through when lit. Getting the grain right is near impossible but if you could do it you’d be untouchable with this. Also, when taping the grid I’d suggest using 3D printed shims or layup guides to ensure even spacing and squareness between tiles.
Loved watching this!
This is a reaaaallly cool board you made! I do have a suggestion for Chessboard V2. Instead of having the outlines have RGB. Make it so that there is an LED shining through each chess piece. When connected to a magnetic sensor. It could then detect when the pieces are on the spot. And this way you can colour them making it visible from ALL angles.
Yeah this would be a for sure thing I add for a V2 in the future! Thanks for watching
Amazing project!!! I always wanted to build something similar, but now I understand the true craftmanship needed for such a project - great job man!!
Thank you!! 😊 give it a go you could do a simplified one to start. Acrylic, wood veneer and the leds. I was almost about to manually cut the veneer with a utility knife for a really thin line.
I love the style and the lighting. Good luck on future projects! Really underrated channel, tbh.
Means alot ❤ thank you for watching!
You deserves many more subscribers. The content and the editing is top notch, best of luck in the future!
That means a lot! I appreciate the support.
It was an absolute pleasure to watch this! Admiration for the work you put in.
@@hellopaji89 thank you so much! It really tested me at times.
As a german carpenter of 10 years i can say without a doubt this is almost masterpiece worthy, I mean it is a masterpiece but if it had a hand made drawer with a lock you really could show up to your carpertry mastersdegree with this as the accumulation and prove of your skills.
Well thank you for the kind words. I love the idea of a wooden drawer. As much as I would like to call myself a woodworker I would need to checkoff more items to get there!
@hobbybuilt One never stops learning :)
Worst chest board this has no white sqares
You asked for a suggestion so here it is. Maybe there’s a way to illuminate a chess piece that lands on a square by making the space touch sensitive? Maybe a disk magnet with a hole in the center and the board senses it’s presence? There’s an led in the center of each square that only illuminates when a chess piece is above it. Why not take advantage of the transparency of the pieces. By the way, I think what you’ve built it really beautifully made and very imaginative. I’m extremely impressed and instantly subscribed as I don’t want to miss further projects.
Thanks so much! I really like the touch-sensitive idea and I'm sure it's doable.
Beautiful work! I love how this turned out and all the attention to detail. Thanks for sharing!
🙂 Thanks for watching Edward!
Amazing video but I really think it doesn’t need music, the sound of the work is much more enjoyable 😊
Thank you! Okay I will try to find a better balance. What are you thoughts on the reveal music?
@@hobbybuilt I think that part was good, maybe make the music a bit quieter, but I think it adds to the vid lol
@@amajor1824 Just ran through my video 100% agree. Thank you for the suggestion you two.
@@hobbybuilt Yeah np, great build!
I love how this video doesn't feel scripted and as is you are speaking while doing it
I didn’t even realize, well I’ll keep it up. Thank you!
Subbed within 10 seconds of starting the video, this project is fantastic, but honestly if you were going for the invisible look I think if you used the thinnest possible veneer you can get your hands on as a top layer, it would be thin enough for the light to shine through and give you the effect you're looking for, maybe.
Thank you, that means a lot! I really wanted to cover it up with veneer but when I did the rgb colors did not pull through correctly :/
@@hobbybuilt Dang... there you go, then. Thought I was on to something, myself.
Looks amazing.
If you're going for completely hidden, you could maybe use a thin veneer on the top.
Kind of like those veneer alarm clocks you see sometimes
I have a clock like that, so tempting! Might need a break from this project it so much more work than expected 😅
Thanks for the watch!
oml when you turn the led on and it gave the coolest pattern to the pieces!! This was amazing well done
Glad you liked it!!
Just wanted to stop and say that your level of craftsmanship and technique was really cool to watch. I don't really comment often but this was worth commenting on. You deserve more subscribers for sure. I hope your channel grows, you definitely deserve it!
Thanks a bunch, really appreciate the kind words! 🙏
*ngl this has to be one of the most aesthetic custom chess boards ive seen, amazing job!*
Thanks so much! 🙂
Nice setup you have there. The final result looks pretty good! Something you could do in the future is use hall effect sensors to light up squares where there is a piece. Congrats on a great build!
Thanks Xavier, interesting! Those are cheaper than I expected. Version 2.0 if I ever get to it haha.
I was gonna get mad about the non-alternating color scheme that chess boards usually have because it makes it harder for me to see the diagonals, but with the way the outlines were made, it seems even easier to track the diagonal. Beautiful piece.
When I first thought of it I was really worried it would be difficult playing but it works great thankfully! Thank you for the kind words.
Cool project and great job! There are a lot of options to upgrade and continue this project. I think about automatic chess timer relaunch when player makes his turn. That will be really smart chessboard. But that's another story.
That would be amazing! The possibilities are endless.
Great work. I love the way the board turned out. The video was excellent too, great blend of music and narration. Really well done.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You’re amazing bro, your sense of engineering is very interesting, I’m going to subscribe and I’m looking forward to future projects!
Thank you! More projects on the way
i feel like a good followup for this would be: overengineering my overengineered chess board, where u add an engine and buy a chess computer for this project... would love to see such a thing
Ohh that’s a great idea!
Wait what. 3,000 subs? Not 300,000???? Crazy good production. I'm happy the algorithm sent you on my feed.
haha thank you really! Glad you liked it.
To make it invisible put black illusion paper on top to cover the whole thing this way when you turn it on the lights are only visible and when it's off nothing else is
Hmm! Never heard of black illusion paper
I watch similar DIY videos and the algorithm led me to the channel of yours - and gladly so.
The editing and commentary are well done and I was entertained all the way through.
Also have been watching your video on the zen garden thingy which was by far less complex of a build but was not any less beautiful and watchworthy.
Keep it up and I'm sure this channel will grow tremendously - it'd deserve it! Cheers.
Thank you thank you 🙏 Very nice of you to say, I’ll see you in the next video!
since the leds are individually controllable you could modify the board with sensors for the magnets and have it display the tiles that each piece can move to wen you pick it up
what a great project really good idea
@@Coolman-lr4ry appreciate it thanks for watching.
You could add rfid tags to the pieces and readers to the board and track moves!
very cool! ...the next version should have som light emitting through clear pieces. So that placing them on a its spot would make them glowing. That would be even more cool
Oh don’t get me started! That would be neat. A prism effect maybe?
Thanks for watching,
Alex
@@hobbybuilt very high quality videos and work, i will be here for it :)
OK, SO...
Incredible project. Don't get me wrong. I love the look, I love everything about it.
But it's not what I *thought* you were going to make?
When I saw you were making a chessboard with acrylic cutouts, LED illumination, and magnets...I thought it was gonna be like...super-duper smart. Hall effect sensors to track the position of pieces...individual LED control for the various squares, maybe inbuilt start/stop buttons for speed chess?
So, maybe for the second project - try something like this? For illuminating the individual squares - consider LED strips with a *wider* LED spacing, configured so you only need *one* RGB LED under each square. Then you do a simple grid and keep track of which pixel numbers correspond to which squares, and you can do some cool stuff.
Incorporate hall effect sensors as well, and you could configure it for "tele-chess". You could literally have software watching both sides of the board, and as long as you "zero" it at the start of a new game, you should be able to track the movements of "local" players, and then when a "remote" player makes a move, light up the square under their piece and the target place.
Then, for extra cool factor - make the pieces somewhat translucent as well, this way they light up with the board?
Great suggestions! Quite the dream project. If I ever get around to a v2 hall effect sensors will definitely be in it. Thanks for watching 👊
This is so impressive and you're insanely talented. Keep up the good work! Not to sound like the oldest dude on the internet but try to reduce the "um's" in the voiceovers and that alone will add the video!
Thank you! I’m always trying to improve!
Memes were 10/10. Craft, detail, and creativity 10/10. Inspired and subbed 👍🏼
Thank you so much! Glad to have ya
Thats dope, I need one
Thanks! Definitely an upgrade
Video is perfect combination of every branch of engineering.
Glad you liked it thanks for tuning in!
Crazy additional idea to help beginners, but make it so each space pushes down just a bit, add something that detects different kind of pieces, and then have the spaces it can move from where it is, light up when the piece is pushed down
Definitely possible! V2 if I ever get the time
I love finding gems like this in my recommendations.
Small bit of feedback: your voice volume is a bit too low, might want to turn it up a bit or adjust the mixing with the music :)
Got it, thanks I'll increase dialog a few decibels. Glad you found an liked the video!
i think it looks good. if you are going to do a new one try taping off the white and black squares and stain them differnt colors.
BEAUTIFUL!!!! I love the henge design and would buy one for myself. Good work brother keep it up. Very creative!
Thank you so much!! I will do!
My friend is obsessed with chess, I need to show this to him! This was amazing
At first I want to say that your work is amazing, and if some company sold boards like that, I‘d buy them. But I think, you could have handled the magnets under the pieces better, so that they you couldn’t see them.
Although that, Love your work, well done
Well thank you! Glad you liked it. As far as the pieces the magnets are covered up by the felt pads on the bottom.
such an incredible build could use some touch ups light light through the pieces but honestly really cool
Thank you so much! Light through the pieces is a great idea!
I‘ve seen products, where the LEDs are hidden under the veneer, without the cutouts. It’ll probably need some trying out, as to how thin the veneer needs to be, but it could work as well for such a project since you wanted to „disguise“ the chessboard.
U missed one thing u should include In ur next one, extra pieces for when u promote other than that love this subbed
You should add chatgpt / stockfish to it so that you can play by yourself and play against an ai. When the ai moves, make the corresponding squares light up.
love it!
Great built, what more you need is a customised code for interactive LEDs. Winner blue color, looser red.. or .. there are countless possibilities.
Thanks! Great idea, If I had more time I would have loved to do this.
It looks so cool!
Maybe you can make the pieces glow up if they are on a field. So it would give it a very cool feeling when you place them down!
Nice idea!
Awesome work, i do love how you've not gone traditional with different colored squares, all same colour makes it a decorative piece 👍 and i love the printed hinges
I was a little worried it would be confusing but it works just fine, thanks so much for watching!
Incredible content! Good job on the board as well as the video!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
i love it, would love a folding travel size to take to work, with only the light squres illuminated and fully cut out, but diffused. we play daily on lunch.
That would be very unique! Thanks for watching
This is great!!! Thank you algorithm for showing me this incredible build from this talented creator!
Some suggestions for V2.0:
- Glow in the dark pieces would be great.
- Maybe a timer built into the board for each player. They get set amount of time to think about their move and hit a button on their side of the board when they're done. And when the player takes too long to play, the timer runs out and the whole board lights up red.
Thank you thank you!!! Glad you liked it. Love the glow in the dark piece idea and I actually wanted to add a built in timer but this project was beginning to become a month long journey so I had to wrap it up.
That the exact length breadth and depth a RUclips build video should be, for someone just starting out it shows a hell of a lot of promise. subscribed...done.
🙏 Thanks for the watch, feedback, and sub!
I do not play chess, but i would love to have this and actually learn to play on it. It is so aesthetically pleasing! Well done :D
Thank you so much!
You could put a small copper coil in each square are power them, and then you put one in each piece and wire it to an led. And make a system so when you place a piece on the board the square lights up brighter
Pieces with magnetic switches and an LED in them. They turn on when placed on the board tiles.
An awesome project is made more awesome when you put all those sweet tools to use for it. Nice work.
Agreed! Glad you liked it.
It's an incredible build. Even the parts you weren't satisfied with were still awesome. The only suggestion I've got for V1 would be to epoxy fill the board grooves, and sand everything flat. That would somewhat make them less noticeable. Either way, if I had the extra cash, I'd try to commission one, and never think twice about the decision. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I totally get it about the grooves epoxy would like nice too. Definitely something to try next time.
quick tip i use a seringe when i need to apply very little ammount of pigment or catalizer o paint.
I find the pigment to thick for a standard size syringe, but maybe thinning it first may work. Thanks for watching!
You can try having the square cut outs with a really thin veneer on top allowing light to be shown through
I experimented with that, was so close to doing it but even the thinnest of veneers threw off the RGB colors so much because certain wavelengths not being able to get through.
Awesome build Dude. Crazy lot of work but the final wow…. Your skills are anazing
Thanks a ton!
Didn't even realize it was supposed to be a hidden board till the end. I was just sitting here thinking "Man, I gotta learn to do that" to basically every step.
You’ll get there! 3d printing is the best start.
Just a quick idea but to make the square more invisible have you tried milling from the underside of the top? It would keep the top of the board flawless but still allow the led lights to shine through and out line the cuts.
Did some testing on this but didn’t show in the video. Unfortunately the LED lights looked horrible shinning through the wood veneer. This would have been ideal for sure.
The V2 of this could be usb-c charging and have an integrated timer. Other than that, this is a beautiful piece that is pretty much perfect as it is.
Thank you so much 🙏, USB-C is a great idea!
Not just a good build but an amazingly structured video!
🙏 Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
What a fun and inspiring project, well done and great editing! Would be cool with a programmable chess computer built in and perhaps glow in the dark pieces?
I need your gadgets...😍
Aww thank you! Interesting idea the glow could be recharged by the leds!
Very cool project. Nicely executed. Thank you for sharing.
Appreciate you checking it out!
This video is gonna blow up!! And deservedly💪🏼
i really liked the design! i just wished it had a digital chess clock build in since we were going for ultimate
1:30 My guess would be 192 magnets since 3x8x8=192, assuming there are 3 magnets in each cell
157! Thanks for watching
Very very nice!
If you had a way to detect which pieces were where you could have the ESP32 indicate valid moves when a piece is picked up. Also an integrated timer would be a neat touch.
Very cool idea maybe a v2 in the future
That looks *so cool!* I actually want to buy one of these. I could see this going for like 200 or 300 dollars and I still would impulse buy it.
Giving me ideas! Thanks for watching
I saw this video on my for you page and i was like wow i wached the video and it was great then i looked in the comment all saying ur underrated and i agree so much such a beatifull project you can be proud
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to comment.
Great video, very underrated but why did you create molds and not just the models?
You know I could have honestly but thought I could tailor the color and transparency better this way as well as the surface finish. In the beginning I wanted it crystal clear and knew I would not get that off the SLA printer I have.
Wow 🤩 beautifully crafted and very professional. Everything is very well done, just I prefer a flush top probably epoxy filled and sanded. Another fancy suggestion is a more dimly lit top while a more highlighted with chess piece in position.❤love it all the way. Subscribed
Both excellent suggestions! I had originally intended to do clear epoxy top but this project was taking sooooo long already. Maybe next time!
@ keep up your good work, very inspiring and full of professionalism. Looking fwd to more of this wonderful built. Thanks for sharing ❤️
Your channel deserves a lot more subscribers
🙏Thank you!
Ummmmm astounding work, sir. Simply beautiful. Okay, SO, I have zero experience in this specific level of craftsmanship, so these critiques are likely to sound naive. First, from a visual standpoint, the outer LED boarder, in my opinion, doesn't look "great" whenever it's next to a square's individual boarder. It ALmost creates a visual tangent, which in the design world, as you likely know, is unpleasing and the viewer usually can't figure out why they're unpleased. I don't think the boarder is necessary at all, actually. Secondly, and this is where the naivety will be blaring, what if instead of channels for the LEDs, the cnc machine NEARLY carves through from underneath, creating a SUPer this layer for the LEDs to shine through when on, but no visible channels when off. Anyhow, I absolutely love the techno-organic look. Great work!
Glad you liked the video! Great point for the outer boarder. I think I agree with you, It seems off. As for the led shjne through I’ve done a lot of testing with glowing through a medium like wood. The wavelength of the led is at its mercy red light blows through the wood but blue light looks yellow. Alongside that the grain structure makes the glow very inconsistent. I wanted so bad for this to work but just simply looked bad.
@ spoken like a true artist! It absolutely does NOT look bad. What about an epoxy filler, maybe in a tone, not color, that matches the wood? Dude, your stuff is beautiful and fun to watch.
Great video and very impressive work! 👏😁.
For 3d printed parts and home cnc machinig, the final result look more like a final product than a prototype like mainy other youtube project.
Really good job!
(sorry for my english😅)
Well thank you for that, I can see all the little imperfections but glad I saw it to the end.
Your English is perfect by the way, thanks again for watching.
I love how it looks and everything, but you forgot to distinguish between the black and white squares, even if some of the squares are not the same size it could still be difficult to tell
for the top not to show the squares when the lights are on u can put a thin layer of veneer on top of the entire board so that the light can bleed out through the veneer
I experimented with that and so close to doing it but even the thinnest of veneers threw off the RGB colors so much because certain wavelengths not being able to get through.
@@hobbybuilt now i dunno if ull like the following, but what about using like the plastic veneer or those textured fake wood wallpaper
That was a really cool build. And you did a great job on it.
Would be awesome if each square was individually addressed and the available moves lit up on the board. Could detect when the piece was lifted using either the magnet or make the pieces conductive and have a capacitive touch sensor on each square this would also enable an automated timer
Very creative, definitely keep it in mind for V2 if I ever get the time!
Each piece should have a small coil and LED inside. Each square should also have a coil. The pieces light up when placed over a tile even though there’s no visible light in the board. It would be like magic
Amazing!
Bit late to the party here, but my guess for magnets is 192. Two for each space in the board and two for each chess piece (196 if you included extra queens for pawn promotion). For future reference, if you use strong Neodymium magnets (I get mine from Apex Magnets), you'll just need one for each space and one for each piece in order to have them attract through more material. The neodymium magnets I use (5mmx5mm cylinder in the board and 1/4"x1/4" cylinder in the pieces) are strong enough to attract the pieces through about 3/16" of wood.
As for a suggestion, 3D print yourself a Battlefield Chessboard (check my shorts if you want to know about the concept). I work with wood, so I make it out of wood, but it would be a cool and relatively easy 3D printing project. You could also use your CNC to make a wood version and save yourself from the work of power-carving with an angle grinder.
Hey man ran across this video and ended up watching a few of your other videos and i love the content. I just bought a house at the start of the year and have been doing a ton of renovations. Its my first time having an actual work space (garage) and I've been diving into custom design stuff for the house. I want to see more of your builds and ideas. I love the can light to studio light, speaker stands, and studio wall. The chess board is dope i just don't play chess. So please keep putting out videos, i love the unique way of designing projects.
Congrats on the house! So nice having space for the things you love to do. Thank you for the kind words, I will keep cranking videos out!
@@hobbybuilt Absolutely man i love the unique designs and hope to come up with some of my own in the following years. Ive been slowly recording my efforts and just need to find the time to edit and upload. But keep up the grind, i love all the ideas and designs. Going to give me some inspiration for sure.
What an amazing build! Was really rooting for you not to screw up the polarity of any of those magnets - an almost herculean task given the number employed!
Haha I wish I could say I didn't. I must have reglued 5 times from polarity issues. Next time I'll be sure to document!
Great job, but since you asked, next time, you could have a matrix of LEDs under the chessboard so you could light up each square individually, have a hall sensor under each square.
This way you could have the valid moves light up when you lift a chess piece, you could also have a training mode, so when you move a piece the computer opponents can light up the move it wants to make
Oh yeah that would be great, others have mentioned that. Maybe a version 2 is in the horizon.
Nice job. Looks very professional 😊
Looks cool, but it's too hard to see dark and light squares.
Next upgrade should be this, but it shows the squares properly and it has a built in computer telling you how to move for the computer in solo play through lighting up squares.
And with some settings, you can tap pieces to show you the way they can move, including blocking pieces and then for even more advanced stuff, include a chess teacher that uses the light to tell you best moves and teach you openings and stuff.
Really awesome discovery here. I had a great "DYI Perks" vibe going on - A good thing, as I'm sure Matt would agree.
Wow thank you so much! I love his videos, always a good day when one drops.
Absolutely amazing. Love this project.
Thank you for watching! 😊
Before you put the oak on the acrylic panel, etch for the squares on the underside of the veneer. The light will be able to pass through but you shouldn't see them when the light is off, it'll leave you with a flat surface on the top. It might be a good idea to paint some clear epoxy into the etched grooves too, since they'll be quite thin on the top and easier to accidentally break than the current design. This might be trickier to do while keeping everything aligned, but I think it's the simplest design change to hide the squares perfectly.
On a personal note, I've seen some other suggestions of sensors to change the colour of a square that has a piece on it. I think that would look tacky and overdone myself - you can already tell whether a square has a piece on it, because you can see the piece, so it's not adding much other than flashy lights. You're building a chessboard, not a rave. That being said, it could also be a lot of fun so maybe do it just for that.
I also think moving the spot for the pieces into slide-out drawers on either side would be a much nicer look - means you don't need to flip the board to get the pieces. Blending the veneer is tricky but doable, and you could add a pressure sensor (or even a hall effect sensor) to activate the lights when the pieces are removed, which gets rid of the on/off button. Since you can control the LED's from your phone you could remove the controller button for them too and now you've got what looks like a nice block of wood with a power cable attached to it, no indication of what it is or how to use it.
Opening the drawer would also be a bit trickier, since adding a drawer handle kind of ruins the effect. There are push-open drawer slides but might be hard to find some that are small enough for your use case. First-guess I've got there is to take inspiration from clicky pens, which I think use some sort of a cam and spring mechanism which should be fairly easy to replicate with some standard springs & 3d printing
Also lots of suggestions like valid-squares being illuminated when you lift a piece off the board, or highlighting suggested moves, or Stockfish integration. Those all sound cool but are much more complicated, because now you need to be able to uniquely identify each type of piece. It's a cool software engineering challenge since there's no easy way to make the pieces identifiable by a sensor, so you'd need to track the board from its initial (known) state and update based on every move made. That's cool as hell and if you feel confident doing it give it a try, would love to see your solution, but yeah would be a fair bit more difficult than the current software.
looks amazing. great job!
Glad you liked it! 😊