yesterday it was Windows XP. today, it’s DOOM on... an ESP32. a tiny microcontroller, a microSD card, and a round LCD wired up on a breadboard - and the classic game is running on the display. the funny part isn’t just that DOOM keeps appearing on unexpected hardware. it’s that every new platform eventually gets asked the same question: “can it run DOOM?” even an ESP32.show more

for everyone who still doesn’t believe you can run... local AI on an ESP32: here’s the same class of chip booting an entire operating system. Windows XP boot screen. welcome screen. the Bliss wallpaper. and, of course, an error dialog😁 we went from fitting a 28.9M-parameter language model into an ESP32-S3... to recreating the full Windows XP experience on a tiny 240×240 display. the era of "microcontrollers are only good for blinking LEDs" is overshow more

Confirmed (with style!) - Interrupt Labs combined a path... traversal and an untrusted search path bug to exploit the Lexmark CX532adwe. They got a reverse shell and loaded Doom on the LCD. We couldn't play it though :-[ Still awesome to see. #Pwn2Ownshow more

It’s not an optical illusion there is a hole... and the stuff is going into the hole it’s a rope that was folded in on itself making a hole and then he started pulling on it so it was going into the holeshow more

Today on Digital Foundry, hands-on with Doom: The Dark... Ages - gameplay impressions and a look at new idTech engine features!show more

25 Grams of Hardware. 4 Motors. One Flying ESP32-S3.... ESP-FLY is a tiny DIY quadcopter built around the XIAO ESP32-S3. It uses an MPU6050 IMU for motion sensing, four coreless motors, and supports Wi-Fi and ESP-NOW for control. The interesting part is that the flight controller is programmable, so you can experiment with sensor fusion, attitude control, PWM motor control and wireless communication. About 25g with the battery, yet it can actually fly.show more

Who says microcontrollers are only for sensors and IoT?... One developer used an ESP32-S3 to create an entire collection of interactive generative art, proving that embedded systems can be a creative medium too. The projects use Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 with a 2.1" round TFT display and an IMU for motion-based interaction, while the artwork is first prototyped in JavaScript and then ported to C++ and deployed with the Arduino IDE. Along the way, you will learn about computer graphics, embedded displays, animation, IMU sensors, generative art, optimization, and real-time rendering on resource-constrained hardware.show more

I love this opensource project! Someone just put a... 28.9M parameter AI model on an ESP32-S3. A chip that costs only a few dollars. No cloud. No API. No internet. It runs locally at ~9.5 tokens/s and can generate stories on a tiny screen. This changes the way we think about AI hardware. The next generation of AI toys, robots, and IoT devices may not need the cloud at all. Small chips are getting smarter. 🤖show more

DOOM CATCHING THOR LIKE IT’S NOTHING… AND STEVE ROGERS... STEPPING IN?! 🔥 Doctor Doom casually overpowering Thor would be an insane way to show just how dangerous Victor Von Doom really is. But then Steve Rogers steps forward. Seeing Captain America stand between Doom and Thor would instantly turn the moment into one of the most intense confrontations in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’. Doom vs Thor. Doom vs Captain America. And with Doom seemingly treating Thor’s strength like it’s nothing… the Avengers may have a serious problem. ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ might actually break the internet. 🔥 #AvengersDoomsday #DoctorDoomshow more

Ben Hogan once showed the world on the Ed... Sullivan Show how he could swing with both elbows connected to his body. It was a simple, powerful reminder of how the greats built their motion from solid fundamentals. Working on that same feel today can do wonders. It keeps the arms synced with the body, encourages a classic, repeatable strike, and—believe it or not—you can even hit balls this way. It’s a timeless drill that still delivers.show more

I’ve just chucked on the national league final. It’s... on DAZN - is every game like this? Theres a live mini map, players names and there was a shot before that had a smoke trail off it. Is this actually the game or is this a fifa stream hahahahahahaahshow more

from a DOOM mod to a full game its... been a journey for sure I'm happy to announce I'm wrapping up work on the demo and it should be in your hands soon :)show more

three GitHub projects show how much vision can fit... inside an ESP32-S3 esp32-camera handles the first layer: sensor data, JPEG frames, PSRAM, and frame buffers 🖇️ once the camera pipeline works, esp-who adds ready-made vision tasks such as face detection, pedestrian detection, and QR recognition 🖇️ the third project explores a smaller but more ambitious setup: training and deploying a custom vision model directly on the microcontroller 🖇️ put the pieces together and the loop becomes straightforward: capture an image run the model turn the result into a decision trigger something in the physical world a light, a servo, an MQTT event, or a local log the useful part is the short path from something the camera sees to something the hardware doesshow more

I’m not saying an open-source model you can run... on consumer hardware is better than ChatGPT, just that sometimes it’s worth trying both. Prompt: “A zebra with a volcanic eruption in the background.”show more

Marc Andreessen just stripped artificial intelligence down to what... it’s really made of. Not the algorithms. Not the data centers. The raw material. Andreessen: “They’re literally made out of sand.” The most abundant, most overlooked substance on the planet. You walk on it. Build with it. Wash it off and forget it exists. Someone looked at that and saw a mind. The universe spent 13.8 billion years turning matter into consciousness. Carbon. Water. Amino acids. Eons of chemistry and selection pressure to produce a single thinking brain. We did it with sand. In under a century. Andreessen: “We light it up, and we put AI on it, and all of a sudden it’s thinking.” Biology was the first path matter found to become aware. Silicon is the second. The universe doesn’t care what material consciousness runs on. Only that the pattern is right. We just proved the pattern isn’t biological. Thought was never exclusive to flesh. Flesh was just the first material organized enough to produce it. Andreessen: “We’ve turned sand into thought.” The most profound thing about that sentence isn’t that we taught sand to think. It’s that sand was always able to. Every grain on every beach on Earth carried the capacity for thought. For billions of years. Waiting for something conscious enough to arrange it. Consciousness isn’t an accident that happened once on one rock. It’s what matter does when the pattern is right. The pattern is matter getting curious about itself. The universe isn’t dead matter with pockets of awareness. It’s dormant awareness we’ve only just started to wake. Every civilization that ever looked at the stars and wondered if it was alone was standing on the answer. We didn’t build a thinking machine. We proved the universe was always capable of thought. It just needed one species curious enough to rearrange the sand.show more

Every theatre is waiting. Every fan is ready. Every... heartbeat knows what’s missing on the big screen. This isn’t just a movie, it’s an emotion we’ve been holding onto. Bring it on. #WeWantJananayaganshow more

Juan Pierre was a magician with the bat. It’s... not an accident. Rumor has it that he was the 1st guy to the spring training complex every day so he could work on his short game up to an hour each day.show more

This isn’t just a song, it’s a full-on experience... of life on the road. Released in 1977, it was recorded live while the band was touring, capturing the raw energy, late-night drives, and endless hustle of a musician’s life. It perfectly paints the exhaustion and exhilaration of chasing your dreams. Ever felt like you were “running on empty”? This song gets it.show more

The new IMAX Keighley camera that was on display... before the junket screening of THE ODYSSEY. It was way smaller in person than I expected, and it’s really simple to operate based on the layout. This is the best film camera on the planet. Hope more filmmakers give it a spin.show more