Power-crazed boffin gets Doom running through the medium of gut bacteria

Doom’s afterlife continues to astonish, as an MIT student manages to run the game on gut bacteria.

Lauren Ramlam was initially inspired by a 2020 proof-of-concept E. coli digital display.

The theory is relatively understandable: visually compress Doom’s frames in a 32 x 48 display

then replicate which pixels are ‘on’ and ‘off’ to approximate those frames via fluorescent bacteria.

Ramlan has this display working but, if you wanted to actually play Doom on it, you’d need roughly 600 years.

"The future of Doom Runs On Everything is bright," says Ramlam, "even if it is over half a millennium from now."

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