Doom is much more than a classic, bloodsoaked first-person shooter known for its chaotic action, over-the-top weapons, and challenging boss fights. For some odd (but very enjoyable) reason, it’s served as a benchmark for testing basic computing capabilities for well over 30 years. Name a device——calculators, ATMs, digitally enabled tractors, and even biochips built with E. coli bacteria—and someone has likely coded it to run Doom.
The latest entry in the ever-growing list of Doom compatible contraptions is a double-dose of DIY ingenuity, however. The Linux software engineer known as Miss Molerat recently began tinkering with a pocket-sized medical gadget made specifically to keep track of her menstrual cycle. But unlike many similar commercial products, “Clotty” keeps all personal data strictly on the device itself. It never connects to an external cloud or offloads sensitive information to a company’s servers, thereby preventing any unwanted data harvesting. And it does all this on a custom, uterus-shaped minicomputer running on a Raspberry Pi microcontroller.
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