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TinyTV DIY Kit

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Looks like combination of this parts [1][2]

Atmel ATSAMD21G18A 32 bit ARM processor at 48MHz

96x64 OLED display, 16-bit color depth, SSD1331

for cheaper price could do much better

200x200 OLED IPS SPI https://aliexpress.com/item/1005001321857930.html

ESP32 240Mhz WiFI https://aliexpress.com/item/32999991632.html

[1] https://tinycircuits.com/collections/all/products/tinyscreen... [2] https://tinycircuits.com/collections/audio/products/microsd_...

Cool, I’m looking forward to your store. Please post back when it’s ready!

The "tech specs" do not mention a resolution or even the dimensions of ... well ... anything. Interesting idea but lacking specific numbers I can't say that I would gamble on this.

The fifth thumbnail image is a dimensional drawing in mm.

The tiny circuits forum seems to have an issue where opening a link to it when searching on google leads to a spam site selling viagra. I searched for “tiny circuits forum bootloader”.

I tried to inform them on their forum, but I didnt want to create an account. So hopefully they will see it here.

This is called pharma hacking and it's big business. If you can exploit a website's SEO ranking to get yourself a boost, you can profit.

Hi - this is Ken from TinyCircuits, thanks for mentioning that, it's the first we've seen it. Seems to be a redirect on search results, I'm looking into this now. It seems if you go directly on the forum you can find the topic, but not if linked in from Google. Hope to have it resolved quickly.

This is Ken again - thanks again for pointing this out, we have gotten it resolved and the forum is cleaned now. There was a malware redirect on links coming in from search engines.

This looks great! Too bad it's not open source, I probably have all the components already and could 3D-print the TV set in a few minutes.

Thanks! Actually it's completely open source, you can download the files for the PCBs, 3D files for the case, and all the software. Check under the Downloads tab on the product page.

Oh fantastic, thank you!

That's cute, and the remote has buttons that apparently can be lit on command, which is cool.

Cool. I've been grabbing little projects like this for my son who's showing an interest in stuff like this in middle school.

I mean I really don't need a tinytv but MAN I really need a damn tinytv!

This is wonderful.

Is this project your personal work? That's what Show HN is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

If so, you should add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. If not, please don't put "Show HN" in the title. You can still make a regular submission of course!

No it’s not my work, sorry my mistake, if you can, edit the title and remove the prefix. Thanks

Ok done!

A perfect way to remove the addictiveness from watching TV/YouTube.

Neat project.

Its obvious to me that this will not get any channels.

Should you change it to "TinyTV" to protect yourself legally since its not really a TV?

> since its not really a TV

Correct, it is not a TV because there's no "tele-" component.

But,

> to protect yourself legally

This feels like absurdist humor. Protect yourself legally from what?

I don't think there's any serious legal threat, but yes, I thought at first that it was a tiny digital TV capable of receiving broadcasts, and there really isn't reason why it couldn't be, although that would be a different product.

I was a bit disappointed as I hoped for some TV functionality, not just similar form. Fortunately some smart people found a way to do that with similar parts (maybe even cheaper...): https://github.com/cnlohr/channel3

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