Base Board

The Base Board includes the main controller and coordinates the smart physical board. It distributes power, discovers the known hex chain, gathers observations, translates sensor ownership, and connects the game experience to web interfaces.

An ESP32-class MCU is the intended direction for Wi-Fi and potentially BLE. The exact model is not selected. An Arduino Uno may help bench experiments but is not the intended final controller.

The Base Board owns board-wide coordination and global mapping. It does not sample every contact directly or render individual OLED pixels. Game rules remain a hardware-independent module even if hosted by the main controller; the final execution arrangement is still open.

Dependencies include the hex protocol, known chain layout, power subsystem, game engine, and client interfaces. See hardware and software.