DGT Centaur mods (Alistair's version)

The original DGT Centaur mods project adds features to the DGT Centaur electronic chessboard.

Inside the DGT Centaur is a Raspberry Pi Zero with an SD Card, by replacing that with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (or Raspberry Pi Zero W) and using a modified software, we get a wireless enabled chessboard that can theoretically do practically anything we can imagine.

This current project overrides the legacy one, re-coding and re-factoring all the unstable scripts.

A word of caution!

All functionality is based on the fact that the Raspberry Pi Zero inside the board is being replaced with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (or Raspberry Pi Zero W) and this breaks the product warranty. Proceed at your own risk!

Current reworked features

• New Centaur interface.

• New advanced web Interface - on http://IP_ADDRESS or the hostname of you board.

• You can now takeback moves.

• You can force a move (if you play against an engine).

• You can resume the last engine or 1 vs 1 game you played.

• New "Famous!" module that allows to train against famous games.

• New Lichess module.

• New WIFI module.

LEGACY MODULES ARE NO MORE REACHABLE USING THIS SOFTWARE.

Roadmap

Currently we are working on...

1. Squashing bugs
2. Improving performance
3. Adding new features

Install procedure

See the install procedure in the release info page. This fork is initially based against the v1.2.1 original version.

This project uses...

• Python 3
• e-Paper
• Pillow
• wpa-pyfi
• python-chess
• berserk
• AngularJS
• chessboard.js
• Flask
• flask-socketio
• Multiple chess engines
• DGT Centaur board Reverse engineering work of the original project

Contributors welcome!

If you can offer some time and effort to the project please get in contact! Everybody is more than welcome!