Then, in 1986, they created a subsidiary company, Saitek, to focus solely on the chess computer, and ever since, they used the Saitek brand to market their products.īoth SciSys and Novag sold some of their first computers under their respective names.
For 7 years afterward, all of the electronic chess games had their main name, SciSys, as the brand. Saitek really began its roots all the way back in 1979, when SciSys was created. The only additional thing to buy is the DGT smart board. The whole system is powered by the AA batteries inside the clock. Eventually though, in agreement with the developer of picochess, the company that makes the clock and smart board began installing the Pi into the clock with the program already inside (DGT Pi).
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A lot of these projects have the word “pi” in them, including picochess, which is short for raspberry pi computer chess.īefore 2015, when the project first came into existence, people had to buy the clock, smart board, and Pi separately, install the program to the sd card, and plug it into an external power supply to be able to use it. This microcomputer is used for a great many DIY projects, from Gameboy emulators (piboy) to mobile weather monitors (Airpi). Essentially, it is a programmable microcomputer called a raspberry pi coupled with a chess clock and a digital smart board. Picochess/DGT Pi might seem like a weird name for an electronic chess game, but once you know what it is, it’ll make sense.
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