Lenovo ThinkPad created by Paul Klinger, the ThinkTiny uses the laptop’s iconic red TrackPoint nub as a joystick for classic arcade games like Snake, Tetris, and Lunar Lander.
It took Klinger about a week or so to build the ThinkTiny. “The code is mostly the same as for my tiny gaming PC, so the main part of that was the mechanical design for the case. The PCB (printed circuit board) is pretty simple, and took only an afternoon,” he said.
The tiny laptop runs on an ATtiny1614 microcontroller and features a 128 x 64 OLED screen. It’s all housed in a 3D-printed case that’s complete with a glowing “Think” logo. Sadly, the ThinkTiny cannot run Doom or Crysis, but there is a neat little Mandelbrot fractal explorer.
The pint-sized ThinkPad is powered by an ATtiny1614 microcontroller that sends output to an SSD1306 monochrome OLED graphic display. A 300mAh lithium-ion battery supplies the juice from what looks to be a micro USB port.
