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igoki

Bridge the gap between playing Go on a physical board and digitally.

The aim of igoki is to enable Go players to play on a physical board, but still have the benefits of playing via a digital medium:

  • Record your Kifu (game record) automatically as the game progresses
  • Guided reviewing, so that you can review games and explore branches on your physical board easily
  • Direct online playing using integration with online-go.com

It is preferable to setup an external webcam to have a decently lit top-down view of your Go board, but it can handle a laptop webcam as long as you can fit the whole board into the picture. Sharper angles do make the stone detection difficult due to stones occluding each other, so try raise your laptop as high as you can.

When you start, you will be asked to select the 4 points of your board - you can flip between camera inputs, in case the first selected one is not the one you want to use. Once you have selected and adjusted that, you will be shown a differenced view where you can shift the sampling points to take the stone height into consideration.

From there, the Game mode wil allow you to record and export your game into an SGF file.

There is still much to do in the way of features, but the major feature shortlist currently are (in oder of priority) :

  • Decent reviewing support: Load SGF, step back and forth through the game, create branches and explore game variations.

  • Online-go integration: Upload game record automatically, play live or correspondence games, watch current live games, review games. Play a physical ranked game with two players both providing usernames and api keys and then submit the moves on their behalf (allowing to continue correspondence games later)

  • Feedback onto the board: For the 'next move' on a review or live game, provide some way of showing where the coordinate is. First prize is to use a projector to actually project the stone onto the board. The route I will currently pursue is to setup an Arduino with 38 LED's (19 LED's for a-s and 19 for 1-19), perhaps two more for B/W indication with a serial USB link to update the coordinates.

Usage

Clone this repo and run lein run, it will start up the frame and guide you through calibration.

Alternatively, if you are doing development on this project, fire up a lein repl and (start) to get started.

Contributions

This project is still in it's early stages and I'm excited about the possibilities, but I would dearly appreciate code contributions to the project. If you find this useful but you can't contribute, please consider supporting this project by donating to me on paypal : cmdrdats at gmail.com. Thanks! :)

License

Copyright © 2015 Deon Moolman

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.