How to Get Doom Running on a Pair of Earbuds

Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps

Australia-based developer Arin Sarkisian recently unveiled DoomBuds, a project designed to run Doom on a pair of earbuds. Even more impressively – or alarmingly, if you're not a fan of extreme tech demos – he connected the earbuds to the internet, allowing players to join and play the game remotely.Read Entire Article

How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds

No display? No problem for the UART-to-web-server "Doombuds" project.

DOOM runs on wireless earbuds, playable over the internet

The catalog of devices that can run DOOM grows ever more absurd. We've seen it on toothbrushes, alarm clocks, pregnancy tests, and a rat-controlled VR rig. Now you can add wireless earbuds to the list — and these ones let anyone on the internet take a turn playing. — Read the rest The post DOOM runs on wireless earbuds, playable over the internet appeared first on Boing Boing.

DOOM: Now It Can Run on a Device Without a Display!

TECH NEWS – id Software’s iconic first-person shooter has received yet another bizarre port, even though there was already no shortage of them.   We know, it is starting to feel a bit overdone: yet another developer running DOOM somewhere it clearly was not meant to be. We get it, we have already seen id Software’s genre-defining FPS operate on Lego bricks, inside a PDF, on bacteria, on roughly 45 kilograms of potatoes, on a pregnancy test, and …

Earbuds that play DOOM over an internet connection

Arin has taken the 1993 classic game DOOM and made it run on Pinebuds Pro earbuds. He then connected it to the internet and made it possible for visitors to play the game remotely. This project is made up of four parts: The DOOM port that runs on the earbuds The ‘serial server’ that acts as a bridge between the earbuds and the web server and also transcodes the MJPEG stream to twitch The web server that serves assets, manages the queue, forward…