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The Nintendo Alarmo Sound Clock Actually Gets Me Up in the Morning
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Credit: Product image courtesy of Target. For many years, I’ve depended on my phone to get me out of bed in the morning, and I’ve hated it. I’d easily snooze or catch myself doom scrolling instead of starting my morning routine. That all changed after my brother gifted me perhaps…
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Nintendo’s Alarmo uses the tech that could solve Joy-Con stick drift
Unlike disassembling most modern smartphones, iFixit’s teardown of Nintendo’s Alarmo appears to be relatively painless. Removing a single tri-point screw on the bottom of the alarm clock allows its faceplate to be simply twisted off, providing easy access to its internal hardware. There aren’t a lot of surprises inside Alarmo. Below its 2.4-inch LCD screen, you’ll find the 24GHz mmWave…
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All the buzz about Nintendo’s Alarmo clock
It seems like Nintendo just revealed its mysterious device that recently crossed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — and it’s not the Switch 2. On Wednesday, Nintendo announced, of all things, the “Alarmo” alarm clock. But in classic Nintendo fashion, the clock has some playful tricks. The clock responds to your movements, which you can use to snooze your alarm…
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Doom Has Been Ported to the Nintendo Alarmo Clock
Running the classic Doom is a rite of passage for anything that has circuitry these days. When the Nintendo Alarmo released, some pondered when someone would get Doom running on it, and that has now happened. GaryOderNichts on GitHub got Doom running on the Nintendo Alarmo. In a video, the device is shown to run Doom on its tiny screen,…
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Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or pressing the mushroom-shaped blob on top of the Alarmo to move and pressing the other buttons to shoot or open doors. Here, have a…
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