Im waiting for the post "Doom ported to disposable Vape chip" :-D
Doom has been ported to an earbud
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#12Do we have Doom on a USB-C plug microcontroller yet?
Disposable Vape CPU!
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#13Im waiting for the post "Doom ported to disposable Vape chip" :-D
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#14can we run doom on water pump?
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#15Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
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#16Im waiting for the post "Doom ported to disposable Vape chip" :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVsvtEj9iqE
Good catch!
Though it misses my primary condition: "disposable" - ha! :-D
(this one is a refillable one, and it looks like he is streaming the content from his PC?)
But a very cool link, thanks for sharing! :)
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#17The standalone viewer (connected directly to the earbuds) also works on mobile: https://files.catbox.moe/pdvphj.mp4
No touch controls though, it just plays the intro loop
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#18Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
Or a third option - an economic success that economies of scale have made massively capable hardware the cheapest option for many applications, despite being overkill.
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#19Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
It's already very cheap to build though. We are able to pack a ton of processing into a tiny form factor for little money (comparatively, ignoring end-consumer margins etc.).
An earbud that does ANC, supports multiple different audio standard including low battery standby, is somewhat resistant to interference, can send and receive over many meters. That's awesome for the the price. That it has enough processing to run a 33 year old game.. well, that's just technological progression.
A single modern smartphone has more compute than all global conpute of 1980 combined.
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#20Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
Earbuds often have features like mic beam forming and noise cancellation which require a substantial degree of processing power. It's hardly unjustified compared to your Teams instance making fans spin or Home Assistant bringing down an RPi to its knees.