Talking Board กระดานวิญญาณ

A parlour board for up to seven hands. Bots take the empty seats.

Press and hold on the board to rest your hand on the planchette.

Other hands
firmfeather
Mood
still
Your grip
Company
?How it moves

How it moves

Hands resting on a planchette make small movements their owners don't feel. Expect a letter and the hand drifts toward it. William Carpenter named this the ideomotor effect in 1852.

Each bot at the table is a small program with three pulls:

More hands, more pull. With six others at the table, your own hand gets outvoted.

Your grip. While you hold the planchette, the board measures two things. Twitch: how far your pointer jitters around its own slow path, and how often it reverses. Firmness: how long you hold, how hard you pull, how seldom you reverse; a pen or touch screen adds pressure. A twitchy hand gets more smoothing and a looser idea of "stopped". A firm hand pulls harder and lands letters sooner. This browser keeps the measure for next time.

Sensitivity sets how long, and how near, the lens has to rest on a letter before it counts. Feather counts letters the planchette slides over; firm waits for a stop.

Mood reads the last four seconds of movement: circling, darting, pausing, jittering. The mood picks which words the bots expect. Under each message, the reading is the nearest words from that vocabulary to the letters that landed, allowing a missed or extra letter. Faded letters matched no word.

A question steers the first word: is, will, should… leans to YES or NO; who to a name; where to a place; when to a number or a time.

The Thai board carries the 42 consonants in use. A Thai word is read from its consonants alone, so ร then ก reads รัก.

For entertainment.