{"id":51303,"date":"2026-04-15T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51303"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:47:47","slug":"doom-on-a-fancy-smart-toaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51303","title":{"rendered":"DOOM On A Fancy Smart Toaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1075911\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Although toasters should be among the most boring appliances in a household \u2013 with perhaps just a focus on making their toasting more deterministic rather than somewhere between \u2018still frozen\u2019 and \u2018charcoal\u2019 \u2013 somehow companies keep churning out toasters that just add very confusing \u2018smart\u2019 features. Of course, if a toaster adds a big touch screen and significant processing power, you may as well run <em>DOOM<\/em> on it, as was [Aaron Christophel]\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8PfrCpZKCSM\" target=\"_blank\">reflexive response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While unboxing the Aeco Toastlab Elite toaster, [Aaron] is positively dumbfounded that they didn\u2019t also add WiFi to the thing. Although on the bright side, that should mean no firmware updates being pushed via the internet. During the disassembly it can be seen that there\u2019s an unpopulated pad for a WiFi chip and an antenna connection, making it clear that the PCB is a general purpose PCB that will see use in other appliances.<\/p>\n<p>The SoC is marked up as a K660L with an external flash chip. Dumping the firmware is very easy, with highly accessible UART that spits out a \u2018Welcome to ArtInChip Luban-Lite\u2019 message. After some reverse-engineering the SoC turned out to be a rebranded RISC-V-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artinchip.com\/en\/p\/3.html\" target=\"_blank\">ArtInChip D133CxS<\/a>, with a very usable SDK by the manufacturer. From there it was easy enough to get\u00a0<em>DOOM<\/em> to run, with the bonus feature of needing to complete a level before the toaster will give the slice back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Doom on a Toaster ...\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8PfrCpZKCSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/04\/15\/doom-on-a-fancy-smart-toaster\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although toasters should be among the most boring appliances in a household \u2013 with perhaps just a focus on making their toasting more deterministic rather than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}