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Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by GustavoM to c/[email protected]

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Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge -- have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll have to re-watch the video again if I can find it but I'm pretty sure that the video I saw was a different one because the one I remember watching had a pixelated screen screen with a low frame rate.

[–] flubba86 1 points 1 year ago

Well the one I'm thinking of, it had something like a 64x128 monochrome OLED screen, that fits the description of "surprisingly high resolution" for a pregnancy tester, but Doom would still appear as a "Pixelated screen" like you described. Its probably the same one we both saw. Either way, there is no microcontroller inside that device capable of running Doom, so an additional external microcontroller was attached to run the game itself.