Playing Doom on a McDonald's happy meal toy

A run through of a weird project I found online. Playing Doom on a McDonald’s happy meal toy and presented at ✨ ComfyCon AU 2024 Winter

🪛 Tools needed: triangle screwdriver, diagonal cutters or similar tool to cut wires, blu tack

Steps:

1. Buy the nugget tetris McDonald's happy meal toy on ebay

2. 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)

3. Open up device and time to cut out the pcb

4. 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

5. Raspbian install

6. Wait what? oof the header needs to be soldered on. This YT video by Bas van der Sluis saved me 🫡

The soldering is not pretty but it works

7. It was really cool seeing the LCD mirroring the Raspberry Pi desktop

8. A few tabs later I made a bit more progress

9. Progress! 🍫 Chocolate Doom

10. Pew Pew! It's Doom

11. Time for the blu Tack and bundle it all up