Pregnancy tests have been used to play DOOM. So has the Playdate handheld console, complete with hand-crank-for-Gatling-gun action. Another bright spark has taken the next logical step and streamed DOOM Eternal to their Samsung fridge.
There’s even a Tumblr account – itrunsdoom – that lists all the different pieces of tech it works on. What I’m trying to say is that if you have a screen, somebody has probably figured out how to run some form of DOOM on it. So, it comes as no surprise that someone has now mashed up that idea and ran the seminal fps on a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, which was powered by potatoes.
The Raspberry Pi never booted up. Instead of giving up, though, the YouTuber decided to sub in a TI-84 graphing calculator, which both requires very little power to turn on and can also run a very.
I’m sorry… Potatoes?!
Yes, potatoes. YouTuber Equalo baked up the wonderful plan to run a version of DOOM powered entirely by the versatile root vegetable. Originally, he intended to do this on a Raspberry Pi Zero due to the low voltage needed to power it. Take a look:
His video shows the painstaking effort he went to as he chipped away at the idea over a full week. Boiling 100 pounds of potatoes and slicing them into 700 individual slices shows commitment. To hook them up in a connected grid as they begin to rot (and stink) puts his determination on a whole new level.
After all was said and done, the big moment arrived, and the spuds sparked past 100 milliamps and 5 volts of current. It all boiled down to this one moment. But the Raspberry Pi never worked. He’d made a hash of it. Maybe his murphy multiplications were off somewhere along the way. Maybe Raspberry Pi-tatoes wasn’t quite as delicious as he thought. Equalo is not one to be beaten, though. Facing into the devastating loss of tainted tubers, he used a high school math essential instead – the TI-84 Plus.
Doom This TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Doom remake is the first of it’s kind.It includes basic monsters, some levels, and a real 3D motor and runs fast and smooth. Oct 26, 2009 To test it after installation, run TI-Connect, plug in and turn on your calculator, then select TI-DeviceExplorer. If your install was successful, then TI-Connect should be able to find your calc and give a directory of the files on it. If not, then you're going to have quite a headache. A Mario-style platformer for the TI-84 Plus CE. Features/enemies from the original games.
The classic calculator can already run DOOM, so it’s not a massive shock; he managed to get it running. But the fact a few hundred potato pieces powered it? That’s an impressive feat.
This whole experiment just goes to show how far creative (and probably hungry) minds can run with an idea. It goes beyond the scope of simply ‘does DOOM work’ and adds a crisp layer of engineering that’s so incredibly interesting to see.
What’s next? Running the iconic game on an Apple-powered watch?
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If you’ve got 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator?
That’s what YouTuber Equalo decided to do, spending almost a week planning out how many potatoes he would need and in what configuration they should be wired in order to get the appropriate number of volts and amps needed to play the original Doom on a TI 84 Plus. Fans have spent years getting the game to run on every electronic device they can find, but Equalo decided to up the ante by trying to power the game itself using only root veggies.
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The YouTuber started the project by measuring how much current he could get out of a single potato, placing a piece of copper at one end and a piece of zinc at the other. He then multiplied that by the amount he’d need to power a Raspberry Pi computer, which eventually led him to boil down and cut up 100 pounds of potatoes into a grid composed of over 700 slices.
Ti 84 Plus Instruction Book
It took several days and the decomposing potatoes (boiling them makes them better conductors because it increases their starch concentration) began to smell, but eventually Equalo reached the over 100 milliamps and 5 volts of current he needed. The Raspberry Pi never booted up. Instead of giving up, though, the YouTuber decided to sub in a TI-84 graphing calculator, which both requires very little power to turn on and can also run a very rudimentary version of Doom.
To the relief of bored algebra students everywhere it worked.