A run through of a weird project I found online. Playing Doom on a McDonaldโs happy meal toy and presented at โจ ComfyCon AU 2024 Winter
๐ช Tools needed: triangle screwdriver, diagonal cutters or similar tool to cut wires, blu tack
Steps:
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Buy the nugget tetris McDonald's happy meal toy on ebay
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Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, Pimoroni Display HAT mini or 3.5" LCD Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi. I bought the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and soldered on the 40 pin header (oof)
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Open up device and time to cut out the pcb
- One of the cool things about this project was using old tech I had lying around, like the micro SD card adapter, from my Raspberry Pi 2
- Raspbian install
- Wait what? oof the header needs to be soldered on. This YT video by Bas van der Sluis saved me ๐ซก
The soldering is not pretty but it works
- It was really cool seeing the LCD mirroring the Raspberry Pi desktop
- A few tabs later I made a bit more progress
- Progress! ๐ซ Chocolate Doom
- Pew Pew! It's Doom
- Time for the blu Tack and bundle it all up