Chess Computer Retires To Play Jazz

Years in the past, [Leo Neumann]’s girlfriend gave him a Seventies chess laptop sport that was lacking virtually the whole lot however the tremendous cool clicky keyboard. Noting the similarity of chess transfer labeling to chord notation, [Leo] determined to show it into one thing even nerdier — a jazz chord game where you jam with the computer.

To play the sport, you and the pc take turns coming into jazz chords that progress musically from the final one performed. The {hardware} is easy — a Raspberry Pi Zero and a WM8960 audio hat with amplifier in audio system. [Leo] additionally put in a barely bigger show than the unique and printed a brand new backside half for the case. We love the look of this construct, particularly the groovy customized line font [Leo] designed.

On the software program facet, [Leo] made a Python prototyping surroundings utilizing PYO Module and Kivy UI. Not content material with different approaches to tonal consonance, [Leo] performed a pair thousand chords and rated them in response to their progressive concord. Shake out these jazz fingers and test it out after the break.

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