#stunting — Public Fediverse posts

PetaPixel: You Can Play Doom On a 16-Year-Old Canon DSLR. “It’s possible to run the pioneering 1993 first-person shooter video game Doom on just about anything, even cameras. By using Magic Lantern software on a Canon EOS 550D from 2010, also known as the EOS Rebel T2i and EOS Kiss X4, photographers can install a custom build of Doom on their APS-C cameras.”

TechSpot: This fully walkable 3D city was built entirely out of ASCII art. “Even the latest and greatest titles still have a long way to go before virtual environments become indistinguishable from reality, but at the current rate of progress, that eventuality may not be too far off. On the opposite end of the spectrum – and to some, even more impressive – are projects that do more with […]

Hackaday: Samsung Printer Is The Next Frontier Of Minecraft Servers. “While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of ‘game you play on every piece of hardware’ it seems that the role of ‘game you play on everything just because you can’ is slowly being shifted to Minecraft, as we have yet another Minecraft server somewhere Minecraft has no business being served– in this case, a Samsung Printer.”

Geeks Are Sexy: Someone Crammed a Working Windows XP PC Inside a Walnut. “Forget Raspberry Pis, mini PCs, and laptops. Someone looked at a walnut and thought, ‘You know what this needs? Windows XP.’ And instead of immediately questioning that decision, Dr. Kun Dániel spent hundreds of hours turning the walnut into a fully functional computer with a tiny screen, five-button keyboard, USB-C […]

Mother Jones: The Tate Brothers’ Lawyer Is on an Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their Release. “[Joseph] McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and […]

The Register: Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller. “In a process detailed on GitHub, and recently showcased on the Better Stack YouTube channel, SlvDev documented how he managed to get a small language model running at nearly 10 tokens a second locally on a microcontroller that costs about the same as a fancy cup of coffee.”

TechSpot: Doom now “runs” in Microsoft Paint thanks to a wildly inventive clipboard trick. “WTF?! It’s long been established that Doom can be made to run on pretty much anything with a screen, but this ability goes beyond mere devices. The latest example of the classic FPS’s legendary portability involves Microsoft Paint essentially being used as a monitor that displays the original shareware […]

Tom’s Hardware: GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas. “A Grand Theft Auto (GTA) modder has developed a mod that lets you run Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC) as mini games right inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA).”

Hackaday: DOOM Runs (slowly) In A IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet. “Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not just DOS, but Windows 1.0 and, of course, DOOM. The CSS sheet isn’t holding a DOOM port this time, though — it’s holding a full IBM PC compatible, with a simulated 8086, 640 […]

TechSpot: Minecraft joins Doom in the “can it run?” hall of fame with Game Boy Color port. “The question of whether something can run Doom is almost always yes, it can. But Minecraft, while not exactly renowned for being graphically intensive, is more demanding and modern, so it’s especially impressive that a YouTuber managed to get the game running on Nintendo’s 1998 Game Boy Color.”

Hackaday: When A Favicon Becomes The Entire Website. “Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it’s just the former. His most recent project in this area uses a favicon image for storing a HTML-based website and rendering its contents within the browser after the favicon has been downloaded.”

Hackaday: Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature. “Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as web servers into light bulbs just so they can control them from their telephone instead of hitting the switch. The whole thing seems crazy — but its great, […]

Tom’s Hardware: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs. “Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007, and has added mouse and keyboard support, he said in a post on X this week.”

Tom’s Hardware: Aviation enthusiast uses Raspberry Pi and ADS-B radio to create viral real-time airport tracker — open-source ‘Skylight’ intercepts aircraft signals and projects flight paths onto your ceiling. “Living near an airport isn’t for everyone. But for some, like software engineer Cameron Paczek, the unique environment offers inspiration for very unique projects. Paczek’s latest […]

Hackaday: NoiseCloud: Storing Data On YouTube. “Created by [Lucas], Noisecloud is a tool that lets you use YouTube as a form of effectively-unlimited file storage. It works by taking whatever file data you have on hand, and turns it into frames of digital noise that can be stored and transported as an MP4 file and uploaded to YouTube.”

TechSpot: Forget Raspberry Pi: this computer is literally the size of a credit card. “We’ve seen plenty of tiny computers described as being credit card-sized, but that usually means they have roughly the same footprint as a payment card – rather than actually fitting inside a wallet. One Redditor decided to tuen the phrase into a literal one, building a functioning, battery-powered computer […]

The Register: Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller. “Okay, you won’t exactly be serving up a high-performance, graphic-rich website using this project from European developer and blogger Maurycy Zalewski. The setup is limited to one URL, but hey, it actually works, provided an influx of visitors hasn’t killed the site yet.”

Engadget: It runs Doom: AI chatbot edition. “AI chatbots can answer random questions, create travel itineraries, write code and even ‘date’ users. But can they run Doom? Apparently, yes, yes they can.”

Associated Press: How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa. “Englishman Ollie Jenks remembers when his friend first pitched the idea to him. ‘It was so ridiculous I couldn’t say no,’ Jenks said. The proposal by his Canadian buddy Seth Scott, a fellow lover of cars and crazy adventures, was for them to drive a decades-old British-made Reliant Robin […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Niels Leenheer: CSS is DOOMed. “No, CSS is awesome. CSS is better than ever and it is only getting better. And that is why I built DOOM in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a [div], positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. The game logic runs in JavaScript, but the rendering is entirely CSS. You can play it right now.”

Tom’s Hardware: Mad lad stores and loads Doom from within DNS — TXT record type abused to store game data. “Network administrators in the audience are advised to grab their unsee juice from the shelf, as today’s home project is quite the double-whammy. First, it involves everyone’s favorite problem child, DNS. Second, a madlad named Adam Rice has managed to put Doom in it. That’s a paragraph […]

TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]

Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]

TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”

Tom’s Hardware: Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms. “Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a […]

Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”

TechSpot: 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.”