Before you brush your teeth tonight, remember to install Doom on your electric toothbrush
Your most commonly visible bones are your teeth, so what better way to worship at the fleshy altar of Doom than by polishing those bones with an electric toothbrush whose little LCD screen is running Id Software's seminal satanic shooter? The latest delightfully weird device rising to the eternal question "Can it run Doom?" is a WiFi-enabled 'smart toothbrush', which is juuust powerful enough to run a version of Doom. You can even control it with your mouse. Here, check this out.
Aaron Christophel, whose Twitter bio declares "my biggest passion is to run a custom firmware on as many devices as possible" (and also offers the rallying cry of "Hack the planet!"), has been poking at a Planck Mini toothbrush. The smartbrush has a screen offering information from "brushing performance" to weather reports, powered by a chip which turns out to be up to running Doom. And the Mini is the children's model, so that's nice for the wee kiddywinkles. Christophel demonstrated on Tuesday:
DOOM on a Toothbrush? Sure! pic.twitter.com/Z1qOV7g6zk
He went on to explain that "the toothbrush contains an ESP32-C3 with 4MB Flash" so "with the codebase from Spritetm and miniwad I was able to get the complete size of Doom and WAD file down to the 4MB of the ESP32
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