Monster Chess -LEGO NXT
A very large chess game using LEGO MINDSTORMS(R) robots for EACH piece.
More at: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/monsterchess
More at: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/monsterchess
Quick Facts
Over 100,000 LEGO® pieces
- 37,612 in the chess board
- 17,748 in the robot bases
- 17,114 in the bodies
- 22,688 in the mosaics
- 1,853 in the move selection center
Total retail cost: around $30,000
Size of board: 156ft2 (14.5m2)
Took 4 people about a year to create
Opponent types
- Human vs Human
- Human vs Computer
- Computer vs Computer
Play options
- Normal chess game
- Chess puzzle
- Replay historical match
Programming languages used
LabVIEW for the robots
C# for the PC user interface
Interfaces with standard chess engine
