New electronic board for the visually impaired player
 

Tabutronic are about to release their Tactum board.

https://youtu.be/S3pv9qGWxjo?si=ZVxuKU-3dP5Obn7g

AW: New electronic board for the visually impaired player
 

Hallo,

ich finde, das ist ein wundervolle Idee und ich werde BearChess daraufhin erweitern, damit auch sehbehinderte Menschen damit Spielen können.
Das Brett unterstützt das gleiche Protokoll wie ein TabuTronic Sentio.

Da ich selber nicht sehbehindert bin, versuche ich den Deutschen Blinden- und Sehbehinderten-Schachbund zu kontaktieren um jemanden zu haben der mir sagen kann, wie BearChess dafür umgestaltet werden müsste.

Lars

Re: New electronic board for the visually impaired player
 

At the High School I went to in England we used to play a Blind School every year home and away. Gosh, that has to be 50 years ago now.

The board in the picture is almost exactly the same as what they used, except the edges around the 64 squares where deeper, which I imagine that was to avoid them by accident knocking off a piece. Their hands used to fly around the top of the pieces and squares at a high speed so they can touch and feel each square at speed. So, I would imagine the pins need to be deep enough and solid enough to avoid knocking over and falling across a table or floor.

They also used to often sit and have it on their lap with their fingers working away across the board.

I think it would be good to also build in a timer that if they want it tells them maybe every 30 seconds the time elapsed for example if they are playing the computer.

AW: New electronic board for the visually impaired player
 

Is now also on the website with more information and available for pre-order.


https://tabutronic.com/product/tabutronic-tactum/