Maker Patrick Graham decided that he wanted to create a robot that could play chess, but since he had decided to show his new project off only a few months before the Raleigh Maker Faire, he needed some help. He knew that he would not be able to build a robot from scratch and program it to play chess all within his very tight window, so he turned to his friends at his local makerspace for help and some novel ideas, and thankfully one of his fellow makers had an old 3D printer that he happily offered up to him. With his makerspaces help, Graham converted a Rostock Delta 3D printer into a pick-and-place machine that would move chess pieces around the board. You can read more about this cool project over on 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/121088/3d-printer-to-play-chess/