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Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner

Posted by timothy on from the time-on-hands dept.

leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder Jeff Breidenbach of PARC has made GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, GNU Chess and DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..."

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  1. Award winning... by Omicron32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the "Most pointless thing ever" award goes to...

    1. Re:Award winning... by curne · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nah, the Most-Pointless-Thing-Ever award still goes to inventor of the Helicopter Catapult Seat.
      :-)

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  2. Chess playing copier? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    How do you undo a move, tear up the last page of paper?

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  3. soar losers by frieked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you get to send the winner a photocopy of your ass when you lose?

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  4. Analog Chess by OmniVector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amazingly enough, it's possible to play chess using these strange "pieces" and a "board." Although the idea is novel i suppose.

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  5. Their web server by dereklam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, they're running their web server from the copier, too. Paper jam!

  6. Paper Jam by ArchStanton · · Score: 5, Funny

    "PC Load Letter"? WTF does that mean?

  7. Big deal by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can run Duke Nukem on a Cue Cat.

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  8. Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, let's play global thermonuclear war.

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