Hackaday

Cynus Chess Robot: A Chess Board With A Robotic Arm

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

How to run your 2026 March Madness pool: Play for prizes, create your NCAA Tournament game

March has arrived, which means the madness is soon to follow. Selection Sunday for the 2026 NCAA Tournament is on March 15, which leads to the creation of March Madness bracket picks. Whether you are ...

Forget 'debloat apps.' Sophia Script gives you real control over Windows 11. Here's how it works.

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10 ). It is ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Ancient Roman Game Board Was a Mystery. Researchers Used A.I. to Figure Out How to Play

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch

If this is what a Cavapoo can do, goodness knows what a Border Collie would code.