Doom on a Honda Fit

[davidn]

I mentioned a little improvement project when I posted about the car...


I was sure I'd taken a photo of all the bits before I started, but apparently I forgot to, so this explanation is going to be a little less comprehensive than I intended - nevertheless, this is:

- A Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, in the black case - even tinier than the first edition
- A coiled USB/Micro USB cable for power
- A tiny HDMI cable
- An obvious USB copy of a SNES controller
- A 32GB micro SD card, with an image of RetroPie by Florian Müller (which is excellent, by the way)

When I ordered the Pi 2B, I hadn't realized that the new models took micro SD cards instead of full size ones, but I also bought a micro-SD card with adapter instead of a full size one by mistake, so the mistakes cancelled each other out.

The 2015 Honda Fit has an HDMI input (to preserve the lives of idiots everywhere, you can only switch to it when the car isn't in motion) - and the cased minicomputer fits neatly underneath the dashboard, powered by the USB connection at the front of the car. RetroPie is very easy to set up - putting the image on an SD card boots it up into the interface automatically where you can configure the joystick, and from there, one of the sample games is an ARM port of Doom which you can throw a regular WAD into.

And here's the result!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DSYr4ehi7w
(Professional, closed course, do not attempt.)

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

This is amazing. :D

(Just don't play it in traffic! :P)

D.F.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize this was YOUR doing! When you initially posted it on Twitter I thought you were just posting something else you found!

Next challenge: Control the Fit with the SNES controller. ;)