Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
Syringe drivers exist that are on-line devices. I half expect the first IoT murder to be by someone hacking a syringe driver filled with something vital (say insulin) that’s plugged into the victim’s IV.
I don’t know if such devices are capable of being jailbroken and installed with Linux, but why not?
At the level of microcontrollers there is an entire range with the necessary radio HW and enough computing power and memory to have WiFi and a TCP stack but not enough to fit Linux (stuff like the esp8266, which has only 80KB user data memory).
Those things essentially run just the one application on top of some manufacturer provider libraries (no OS, though if you really want to there’s an RT OS) and which can be something that gets commands via the network and activates some hardware via GPIO ports.
For example, smart LED lamps that can be controlled from a smartphone are made with this kind of HW.
Mind you, recently somebody managed to get Linux to run of a top range model of the most recent of these things (an ESP32-S3).
So I wouldn’t presume that a syringe driver can be made to run Linux, given that it’s functionality is simple enough to be implemented by a simple program that can fit in that kind of microcontroller.
I once saw someone running Doom on a pregnancy tester, so I’d imagine that it could run Linux as well.
I saw that too, but it was a bit a bit misleading. The pregnancy tester for some reason had a pretty high resolution monochrome OLED display, so the guy used the tester’s display to show the Doom graphics. The actual device running Doom was a more powerful controller external to the tester stick.
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.
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.
Well, I tried to look for the video I saw but couldn’t find it. All of the videos I could find have the game in monochrome with a high frame rate, while the video I remember watching looked similar to the GBA version but with a significantly worse resolution and frame rate.
After looking through some other Doom on “insert device here” videos, I couldn’t find it but I found one where the gameplay looks similar (even though it’s a completely different device and the game is clearly modded). The video is called Doom 2 on optimus maximus.
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Linux can be run on an Nintendo 64. Mainline Kernel support has been added in v5.12
The leapfrog leappad used to run linux. People were able to hack them in order to run full on operating systems, by rooting their children’s learning toy
