I am starting to fall sufferer to a form of paranoia. Is there something that may’t run Doom at this level? Is there something that is not operating it as we communicate? I am starting to detect the E1M1 music on the fringe of my listening to as I am going about my enterprise, catching glimpses of cacodemons out the nook of my eye. Am I operating Doom? Are you?
Your toothbrush is. Or, effectively, it could possibly be, as a result of the most recent unlikely implement to play host to the granddaddy of each FPS on Earth is a Planck Mini toothbrush. Rinse and floss, slayer, till it’s finished.
Noticed by 404 Media, toothbrush-Doom comes courtesy of a wizard named Aaron Christophel, who hacked the WiFi-enabled brush utilizing customized firmware earlier than loading a particular, customized model of Doom onto the factor. Ordinarily, the Planck Mini’s WiFi capabilities are solely there to allow the dental hygiene surveillance state: letting you accumulate experiences and details about your children’ brushing habits even when you’re not at residence. Sounds borderline unhinged to me, however I am not a mother or father or an agent of the Colgate Securitate.
Anyway, as soon as the Planck was absolutely jailbroken, Christophel used a pair of GitHub tasks to get Doom engaged on its dinky little display. The primary was a venture from developer Jeroen Domburg that acquired Doom operating on a Christmas tree bauble some time again, and the second was Simon Howard’s miniwad, a teeny-tiny Doom model which did a number of the work in getting the sport shrunk down sufficiently to suit on the comb’s 4MB of flash storage. Even nonetheless, Christophel needed to shrink that model all the way down to get the factor operating.
Toothbrush hacks finished, all that was left was to play Doom on the factor. It runs… really very easily, and is controllable with a traditional laptop mouse, although the shortage of an on-board speaker means you do not get to take heed to the mintiest rendition of a shotgun blast you ever heard in your life.
It is nice, frankly, and if we’re doomed (heh) to progress inexorably down this highway to a cyberpunk future the place every part is feeding our private information again to a shadowy imperium of San Francisco tech bros and you may homicide individuals by refreshing their brains, then no less than we get these absurd little tasks to maintain us entertained on the best way there. You’ve got gotta keep optimistic, in spite of everything, even in hell on Earth.
