Doom on a Dinner Duty: Tech Tinkerer Runs Classic Game on Smart Pot

A smart pot is now a Doom machine—complete with touch-screen controls and a 400 MHz processor.

German tech creator Aaron Christophel ported 1993’s Doom to the Krups Cook4Me Smart cooking pot using the device’s Renesas R7S721031VC SoC, 400 MHz Cortex-A9, 128 MB RAM, and 128 MB Flash.

The process involved firmware extraction, reverse engineering, and mapping touch-screen controls to the pot’s edge-label inputs. The game runs on a small portion of the pot’s LCD display.

Christophel said:

"Yeah, I know how stupid this is—but it had to be done."

The project leverages the pot’s existing hardware without modifying its core functionality. Input is managed through the touch screen’s edge labels, which were reprogrammed to act as game controls.