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"It’s important to note that the pregnancy test hasn’t actually been reprogrammed.
“It’s using a mask rom microcontroller… and a simple LCD that can only show 4 things,” Foone said to Gizmodo.
“So basically all I did was put an OLED display and my own microcontroller into the case. That took only an hour or two. There’s existing libraries for running the OLED that I could use, then I wrote a simple script to push pixels to it over USB.”"
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/yes-a-pregnancy-test-can-run-doom-and-skyrim/
“It’s using a mask rom microcontroller… and a simple LCD that can only show 4 things,” Foone said to Gizmodo.
“So basically all I did was put an OLED display and my own microcontroller into the case. That took only an hour or two. There’s existing libraries for running the OLED that I could use, then I wrote a simple script to push pixels to it over USB.”"
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/yes-a-pregnancy-test-can-run-doom-and-skyrim/