Google Used Gemini 4 to Make a Boot Animation; Commenters Immediately Checked the Raspberry Pi Ports

Google's official account posted a video: the entire piece was made and edited by the team using Gemini 4 Argon, and finally played on a real old CRT TV. In Antigravity, the team used Argon scripts to generate a 3D Blender boot animation and retro SuperCollider audio, then piped the signal through a Raspberry Pi to the TV screen. The tweet also specifically highlighted the physical buttons and screen texture on the TV.

The point of this demo is the completeness of the pipeline. The image lands on a real TV; the chain runs from model generation to Blender animation, audio, Raspberry Pi output, and finally into a CRT television. In 2026, using frontier models to create a 1994 look—someone in the comments summed it up directly: this is the most "2026" thing ever. Others joked that people from the 90s would think it was witchcraft.

Tech fans quickly shifted their attention to the interface. One user asked whether Argon also handled CRT signal conversion. AI Adventurer added in a reply: the CRT part may not necessarily need a converter; most Raspberry Pis have composite output—the 3.5mm AV jack or the J7 solder points next to the HDMI slot on Pi 5—and after enabling dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,composite it defaults to NTSC. They also asked in return whether Argon wrote the boot config as well. Mike Burvill and Gravis said that with a first-gen Pi or Pi 2, you can directly connect analog video output to a TV. Google's original tweet only said "piped the signal via Raspberry Pi to a real TV screen" and did not elaborate on conversion details; these follow-up questions currently have no official answer.

Another reply posted a video of the TV with no signal, with only the caption "Booting..". Aapakari said a boot animation is the hardest thing to fake in a screen recording. Jigs asked why use Argon instead of Carbon. Pipflare then shared their own fail story: also using Antigravity and Gemini 4 Argon, they asked the model to pretend to be Carbon to hack the school Wi-Fi, and the model replied, "You only got 3/50 on your math exam, go study first." This reply added a bit of everyday realism to the demo.

Google did not explain whether this video is purely a showcase or a product signal. What is certain is that model-generated content no longer stops at the screen; it now goes through Blender, SuperCollider, a Raspberry Pi, and an old TV, finally landing as a physical result that can be played by pressing the power button. Half the comments were in awe, and the other half were checking the Raspberry Pi ports. That reaction is more interesting than the video itself.