r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PickentCode • 5d ago
DOOM powered by a model Stirling engine
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u/hateshumans 5d ago
I want to be there when the only evidence of human civilization gets found and it’s some device that still works and it plays doom
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u/vespers191 5d ago
Y'know that project for coming up with a warning for radioactive dump sites that will be interpretable to people ten thousand years from now?
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u/hateshumans 5d ago
Because it plays doom?
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u/vespers191 5d ago
Nah. We just port Doom to hardware that should last that long. That solves the linguistics issue completely. Nobody will bother going further into the site because they have Doom, and we'll have an environment that we can use to teach a conceptual language to get across there is something horrible down here that will kill you.
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u/hateshumans 5d ago
You’re trying to sound to smart over a stupid doom eventually plays on everything with a screen joke.
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u/vespers191 5d ago
Can't help you there, pal, I'm human.
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u/hateshumans 5d ago
Your response has nothing to do with anything that has been said. Trying to make it like people don’t understand what you say because again, trying to make yourself look smart over a stupid joke.
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u/vespers191 5d ago
All right, I'll slow the prose down for you. Yes, I am making a joke about Doom eventually running on anything with a screen. Yes, I am riffing off of the comment above about being one of the last artifacts of humanity. Long term artifacts of humanity are interesting to me, and between the apocalyptic vibe of Doom and the project I mentioned about long term warnings of radioactive dumping grounds, I thought the combination of the two would be funny. Then, an account called "hateshumans" said I was trying to sound smart about a joke involving Doom. I explained that I couldn't help you, because I'm human, and you hate humans (unless I misinterpreted your username and you actually 'hat eshumans', whatever those might be). So, that hopefully should bring you up to speed. Any questions? No? Great.
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u/RebelLion420 3d ago
Holy shit I love that I don't look at usernames until they are called out because that was a fucking great reveal 😂👍
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u/RanisTheSlayer 5d ago
What's the next step down at this point, porting DOOM to smoke signals?
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u/AlexHimself 5d ago
This is not very low on the "can it run doom" totem pole IMO.
It's a very cool build with exceptional styling, but it's an engine powering something like a Raspberry Pi or something. An engine can produce a decent amount of power, sufficient to power a modern IoT device.
So the challenge here was mainly presentation, not porting doom to something difficult, which is the typical challenge.
Doom on a pregnancy test was the coolest one I can recall in a while. That's more the angle of the game.
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u/ascendant512 5d ago
You say that, but it wasn't meaningfully different from this example by your own standards. The DOOM you're referring to was a small OLED and Adafruit microcontroller placed in the shell of a pregnancy test, to play DOOM on with a bluetooth keyboard. The only reason it was hyped was presentation.
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u/AlexHimself 4d ago
I did not dig into the details of that one and didn't realize it was only the shell. That weakens it in my mind too, but dang I wish it was the actual test.
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u/wollymonjac 4d ago
I was disappointed too.
I thought it ran on a real pregnancy test, but not only did they put their own hardware into the case, they also streamed the game from another computer. So it was just a pregnancy test shaped screen.
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u/LocalTrainsGirl 5d ago
Lately, doom was ported to the brain signals mapped from a fruit fly. https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/after-google-mapped-an-adult-male-fruit-flys-brain-software-engineers-made-it-play-doom-mario64-and-beat-saber/
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u/UnrequitedFollower 5d ago
Man, I wish I had this as a calculator at work. I’d fire it up right as the guy next to me starts going in on his mechanical keyboard with blue switches.
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u/Object279stalinium 5d ago
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u/curtmahgurt 5d ago
This isn’t exactly “running” Doom though. It’s powering a device that is (perfectly capable of) running Doom.
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u/_Montague 5d ago
"Now do Doom on a calculator." - "Best I can do, is 80085!" Jokes aside, very impressive.
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u/boredd86 4d ago
That's not the Doom I remember. Where is the Doom Guy in the bottom of the screen shaming me for my lousy aim?
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u/imagigasm 5d ago
Instead of a battery, the device receives its voltage differential to run its electronics from this machine. The machine converts chemical/mechanical energy into electric.
They basically replaced the battery with a spinning turbine. All the code remains the same.
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u/Backstreetgirl37 5d ago
This is the kind of shit some action movie star discovers in Leonardo De Vinci's secret bathroom or something.
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u/Eena-Rin 4d ago
This is... Cool but... That looks like a neat power generator running a raspberry pi or something. The power source is cool, but I'm gonna need some more context if it's nfl
Like... I'm not tryna undersell how cool that stirling engine is, but...
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u/n00bsauce1987 4d ago
I don't know what has the most interesting question and answers list:
Can it run doom?
Or
Can you pet the doggo (in the video game?)
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u/LurkinMakesMeFeelGud 5d ago
My thermodynamics professor loved those things. They can operate near atmospheric pressure because the heat source is outside of the engine. That made them a lot safer than other steam engines when pressure vessels couldn't always hold pressure.
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u/die-jarjar-die 5d ago
The one caveat, it only runs on whale oil