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Doom Comes to Anker’s Prime Charging Station With Playable Performance

The demo was loaded through the charger’s debug header without any hardware modifications.

Overview

  • Hardware hacker Aaron Christophel published a YouTube demo that outlets highlighted on August 21.
  • The charger’s Synwit SWM341-series MCU features an Arm core around 150 MHz with 8 MB of SDRAM and 16 MB of external flash.
  • Frame rate appears smooth when the image is scaled down rather than run full-screen on the device.
  • A single clicky rotary encoder handles movement, turning, and firing as the sole control input.
  • The 2.26-inch color display is roughly 200×480 pixels, and detailed documentation for the Synwit platform is limited and largely in Chinese.