You can play it on a vape, you can play it on a microwave, you can even play it on a pregnancy test, but did you ever think that you would be able to play Doom on your poop?
A first-year PhD student from the biological engineering department at MIT has figured out how to run Doom on a screen created out of gut bacteria cells, specifically E. coli.
Lauren Ramlan, the PhD student mentioned above, devised a way to get the cells to fluoresce in the different frames that require the game to run, using some neat Python coding and probably 57 pots of coffee.
There is, however, a catch when it comes to Ramlans poo-powered screen.
She deduced that it takes around 70 minutes for the cells to illuminate to show the desired screen and then a further 8 hours to return to a darkened state to prepare themselves for the next frame.
That’s a staggering frame rate of 0.00003030303 FPS.
Ramlan says it would take around 600 years to complete the original Doom game on her 1-bit display, but the point is, it’s still playable, and it’s another item that can be added to the ever-growing list of things that Doom can be played on.