This fully functional DIY mini-television is the size of a coin! (And it has its own remote)

Now I’m not really a small-screen person. The idea of watching Netflix on a mobile phone is cringeworthy to me, but there’s something just uniquely charming about the TinyCircuits TinyTV. Designed to be roughly 24 millimeters in width (that’s about the size of a quarter or a dollar coin), the TinyTV is a real, functioning, DIY television that even comes with its own remote control!

The TinyTV comes as a DIY kit that assembles easily in less than 5 minutes with no soldering or special tools required. It runs off a MicroSD card, allowing you to play back up to 5 hours of content (in MP4 format) on the TV’s ridiculously small screen. The TinyTV also comes along with its own TinyRemote with 6 adorable little buttons to power the TV on, change channels, adjust the volume, and even mute the television (I wonder how loud the speakers on the TV are). The TV’s 3D-printed enclosure is designed to resemble old-timey cathode-ray tube tellies from the 70s… and even though it’s printed in white filament, you can easily give it a quick paint-job with some acrylic paints. Don’t use a spray-paint can though, you might just blow the damn thing away!

Designer: TinyCircuits

Goodbye Fidget Spinner, Hello Tiny Arcade!

Why are these ridiculous fidget spinners such a craze?! Enough with it! If you want to keep your fingers busy and yourself entertained, ditch that spinner for a TinyArcade that actually puts a miniature playable arcade game in the palm of your hand!

Modeling itself after the arcade consoles as we know them, these lilliputian arcades are literally the size of your finger, going to show how far we’ve come in the past 30 years! Loaded with a joystick and two buttons, the arcade runs games off a MicroSD that fits right inside the arcade. A power and a volume knob located on the side and top are the only other controls you’ll ever need. The TinyArcade comes equipped with a whole bunch of classic 8-bit games (Tetris, Flappy Birds, Street Racer and Space Invader, to name a few) that should provide you with hours of entertainment! Now for the love of humanity, please ditch that fidget spinner. It doesn’t impress anybody!

Designer: TinyCircuits

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