Yeah, you can run Doom on a Lego brick PC now

I mean, what can’t run Doom nowadays?

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Having wired up theLego terminal we recently reported onas an itsy bitsy external monitor, James Brown has been spotted playing Doom on it. An incredible feat, especially considering the atrocious pixel density of the 0.42-inch screen—I don’t imagine they got very far in the game, but still a very cool little project.

TheTwitter threadgoes through the process, piece by piece, and even shows the capacitive touch controls in use with the ‘trench run’ animation. Now though, there’s actual footage of the thing playing Doom, and while it’s notactuallyrunning Doom itself, we’re still hooked.

I wired the brick up as a very small external monitor, so you can, for instance, play Doom on it. pic.twitter.com/uWK2Uw7EgrJune 19, 2022

Really, how small and obscure can we go with Doom? We’ve already seen it running on amotherboard BIOS, as well as100 pounds of moldy potatoes—hopefully in a very well ventilated room. We’ve even seen the game controlled by arotary telephone, of all things.

These little Lego consoles have been the subject of an abundance of microelectronics projects too, including a somewhatlarger, old-school Lego space computer that really works. That one didn’t run Doom sadly, but it was only a matter of time before the two ideas met in this beautiful marriage of our most beloved childhood joys.

And while fans of these blocky building buddies could always design themselves aLego PCto really get the pixels going, there’s something amazing about beaming the game into a ridiculously tiny Lego monitor. It feels like a moment to be celebrated.

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Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she’s waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.

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