📰 New article from Retro Handhelds
Can It Cook Doom?
https://retrohandhelds.gg/can-it-cook-doom/
You’ve heard of “smart kitchens.” But this? This is dumb-smart in the best way.
Someone turned a Krups Cook4Me pressure cooker into a Doom-running handheld. Yes, you read that right. While the appliance still perfectly boils rice and sears chicken (thankfully), its touchscreen has been hijacked by a hardware hacker who reverse-engineered the embedded system — all to run Doom on your stovetop.
The magic? A Renesas ARM chip inside the display module, with enough RAM and flash to run a 90s FPS like it’s 1993. The hacker bypassed encrypted firmware, tapped into the chip via SWD (the cool kid’s version of a laptop debugger), and mapped Doom’s controls to touch zones. No modifications to the actual cooking logic — just pure, unhinged creativity.
It’s not practical. It’s not safe (probably). But it’s the kind of absurd, brilliant hack that makes you smile while your chili simmers. Imagine: dinner’s ready… and so is your 16-bit apocalypse.
TL;DR: You can now nuke zombies while waiting for your quinoa to finish. The future is weird, and we’re here for it.