Welcome to Arduboy Mini sponsored by PCBway

To power on the Arduboy Mini, attach power via the USB-C connector. The Arduboy Mini will instantly come to life and greet you with the bootloader menu.

Press Left or Right to choose a category, and Up or Down to select a game. Press A or B button to load the selected game. Pressing A or B from the boot menu will load the previous game.

The reset button on the top left will return you to the bootloader menu.

Pressing the reset button from the bootloader menu will place the Arduboy Mini to sleep. (Useful for battery operation)

Connect a lithium battery via the 1.25mm JST connector. Be sure to check for the correct polarity. (Arduboy Mini has reverse polarity protection)

The battery will charge when connected to USB.

Peripherals can be connected via the Qwiic connector port via I2C, and use default Arduino libraries.

The Arduboy Mini is really just a smaller version of the Arduboy FX, so if you’d like to learn more and begin to program check out the Arduboy FX Quick Start Guide and of course Join the Arduboy Community

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"The buttons are objectively fantastic."

"The Arduboy is the best portable Arduino-based development platform ever released."

"Great product, very entertaining! It really is the size of a card. It runs well and is fun to play."

"The preloaded games make for a nice starter library and I'm so far enjoying working through some tutorials to learn a bit of coding. "

“Fantastic little device, even better than I imagined it would be.”

"In my first 6 days with Arduboy I have learned more about coding and writing programs then I would have ever imagined."

"I take it to school everyone loves it, especially the computing teacher, she has bought her own!"

"Fun to develop games for with a growing collection of new and classic gaming already available. Highly recommended."

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