--- title: Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way description: A maker built a conductive chess board that delivers electric shocks via a TENS unit whenever the player makes a blunder, using a Raspberry Pi running the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/taser-chess-teaches-valuable-lessons-the-hard-way-jextwpbdx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way | daily.dev og:description: A maker built a conductive chess board that delivers electric shocks via a TENS unit whenever the player makes a blunder, using a Raspberry Pi running the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/taser-chess-teaches-valuable-lessons-the-hard-way-jextwpbdx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JExTwpbDx.png og:image:alt: Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker built a conductive chess board that delivers electric shocks via a TENS unit whenever the player makes a blunder, using a Raspberry Pi running the Stockfish chess engine to evaluate moves. Each square is isolated and relay-controlled, with MX switches tracking piece positions. The project took over a year and two full rebuilds due to travel mishaps. Despite the elaborate behavioral conditioning setup, the builder reports spending more time on hardware repairs than improving his chess game. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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