I've ordered the 4XR classic because I think the robots are a major selling point - there are already rival boards that light up squares in colour after all. I wish Particula was prioritising speech synthesis and particularly speech recognition in the app. It would be super cool to be able to speak your moves and any comnands (e.g. "take back", "offer draw", "resign", "elo 1500" etc.) and see both sides move their pieces with robots without touching them! One question - is the green square highlghting of every piece of the player to move configurable? I don't find that highlighting useful at all (there's a piece on each of those squares, so highlighting them all in the same colour is pretty pointless) and is actually very distracting indeed. The obvious modes should be: no highlighting, highlighting legal moves only, highlighting best move (maybe the best "X" moves if there's a MultiPV ponder option - show them in strength order in gradually darkening green?) and - if you really must - highlighting all the squares with the player's pieces on them. There is an obvious weakness with Particula's piece design - there's no piece recognition. This will be more keenly felt with the robotic version since you'd want it to move all the pieces itself (assuming they were randomly or wrongly placed on squares) into their starting position at the beginning of the game - a tedious job to do yourself and something the board can't detect whether the right piece is on a starting square or not.
@OliverKoelle15 күн бұрын
Great Video! I ordered mine yesterday, really excited! How often do you need to charge the battery?