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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. Google U.S. Puzzle Championship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Google U.S. Puzzle Championship

    For all those of you who use Google search everyday but missed out the fact that currently, Google is running Google U.S. Puzzle Championship, a national online competition to identify America's most logical minds.

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  2. Resources by blogeasy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this an appropriate use of resources?

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  3. A ha! by BLiP2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "DataGlyphs have been used in several Xerox products ... Applications may include document management, fraud prevention, inventory tracking, ID cards, parts marking or product tagging.

    So thats how all this watermarking technology on copy machines to catch counterfeiters works...

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