Observed arrival · 2026-09-02
Vibrate — A Chess Clock You Can Feel
A haptic time-awareness companion for bullet chess that turns dwindling clock time into pulses, taps, and escalating urgency.
Field notes
The prototype translates bullet-chess time pressure into selectable haptic patterns, with a phone paired to a browser-based control room. Its signal vocabulary changes across four clock bands, from a restrained “lub–dub” above 30 seconds to a frantic final scramble under five. The page also exposes transport and packet diagnostics, and it stops feedback when packets become stale or invalid. Testing is confined to synthetic, local, off-platform, or computer games rather than approved live play against human Lichess opponents.
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