To explore the feasability of an electronic sensor board, I made an application that processes the information that comes from the Scrabble demo board.
The board sends the position of tiles on the board and the racks, together with the letter code, and letter value, every moment that a change is detected. The sensor board does not have any knowledge on the game, or Scrabble word lists, calculation of scores etc. this is all done by the Windows application.
The Windows application receives the information from the board, and processes it, generating a presentation screen, showing placed words, detecting turn change and calculating total scores. An event name and the players’ names can be entered before.
In a demo setting, the game information has been uploaded real time to a web server, on which spectators could log in, and see the game board and game information on their browser.
