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.
