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On a Calculator Powered by Rotting Potatoes

Screenshot: Equalo
Screenshot: Equalo

Sure, your first question seeing this headline and image is, “why?” But instead, treat it like a massive science experiment. Plenty of mods show Doom can run on the TI-84 graphing calculator, but the YouTuber Equalowanted to find out how many potatoes it would take to run Doom on the low-power device with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Well, to answer the question, it took over 100 pounds of boiled russet potatoes slowly rotting over a week to finally play ID Software’s famed game.