I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug
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Details
- External ID
- 50027337
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug
- Website domain
- raytriangle.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27
- Tags
- —
Description
Abused a bunch of ESP32-S3 peripherals to generate an analog TV channel with minimal external components.Obviously it plays Doom.
Enrichment
- Niche
- open-source hardware and maker electronics
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- miniature plug-in game console for retro gaming
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is custom hardware hacking and RF engineering that manipulates ESP32-S3 peripherals to generate analog TV broadcast signals directly inside an RF plug.
What it would actually take: The build requires low-level C firmware to overclock and modulate ESP32-S3 I2S/DAC registers to synthesize analog NTSC/PAL video and RF carrier frequencies directly. It requires custom micro-PCB design, impedance matching, power regulation, and fitting components into an RF antenna enclosure while porting Doom to embedded memory constraints. Deep embedded systems engineering and RF hardware expertise are required.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #272 of 348 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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