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Three Nickel Strips and a USB Adapter Get This Tamagotchi Running DOOM and Super Mario The Tamagotchi was the toy every 90s kid carried, and its newest version, the Tamagotchi Paradise, turns out to be very hackable. Maker Squalius has built a small USB-to-UART adapter that plugs into the toy's link contacts and connects it straight to a web browser. In the demo the Tamagotchi then runs DOOM and a Game Boy emulator playing Super Mario Land on its little colour screen. … |
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DOOM on a $30 FNIRSI Clamp Meter: 32 KB of RAM, No Framebuffer and a Steady 29 fps Running DOOM on odd hardware is an old tradition, but Artur Bieniek has picked one of the tightest targets yet: the FNIRSI DMC-100, a budget clamp meter built around an Artery AT32F415 microcontroller with just 32 KB of RAM. His open-source port of doomgeneric plays the whole first episode of Freedoom on the meter's 320x240 colour screen, with sound effects on the buzzer, and it averages 29… |
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Clotty Is a Uterus-Shaped RP2040 Board Built to Track Periods Offline, and It Already Runs DOOM Maker Kati (missmolerat) has designed Clotty, a palm-sized RP2040 board cut in the shape of a uterus. It's meant to be an offline, privacy-first period tracker that plays like a Tamagotchi, and it passed the hacker world's oldest test early: it runs DOOM. The two ovaries are capacitive touchpads, the screen sits in the middle, and the USB-C port is exactly where you'd guess. Kati says the… |
