His tiny desktop PC, which looks modeled after the aggressively beige IBM workstations of the ‘80s (despite Doom not arriving until late 1993), was creating using a 3D printer. The models Domburg used are available through GitHub for anyone who wants to make their own. Instead of a classic Intel processor, the ornament runs on an ESP32, and while Doom has already been ported to it before, Domburg instead opted for a version of the first-person shooter that had been ported to the Game Boy Advance (and not the official Doom GBA release), because it facilitated controller connectivity.
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So while the ornament can run autonomously, simply playing through Doom’s demo mode, the tiny PC can also be connected to a Bluetooth controller for anyone who wants the eye-melting challenge of hunting down baddies just millimeters in height. In its current form, it only offers single player gameplay, but we’d love to see a version two that offers multiplayer as well. An entire tree covered in tiny Doom playing PCs all networked together is just about as perfect a Christmas morning as we can imagine.