The dev has also created a web page, so anyone can remotely play Doom on his personal PineBuds Pro earbuds.
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(Image credit: Arin-S ) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google A developer has ported Doom to a pair of earbuds . That kind of statement might not have the impact it once had, after tales of high jinks and ports of Doom stretching from quantum computers , to USB chargers , to lawn mowers . However, as earbuds don’t have displays (yet), Arin Sarkisian also devised a canny method to stream the Doom action to another device, or even via the internet.
You can’t just use any earbuds for this latest Doom-on-x episode of development gymnastics. Currently, this Doom port only works on the PineBuds Pro, which Arin-S says are the only earbuds with open source firmware. And, yes, these buds are made by the same folks behind the RISC-V- powered soldering irons, like the Pinecil V2 we reviewed in Aug 2022.
In terms of improbable CPU horsepower, the PineBuds Pro are right up there. Inside their snug ear-fitting shells, alongside the audio drivers and battery cells, there is an Arm Cortex-M4F processor. Arin-S tweaked the open-source firmware to boost the CPU clock from 100 to 300 MHz (an astounding OC nowadays), and disabled the low-power mode for the most Doom-tastic experience.
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