SmallTV-Max — Create a Desktop Screen That Feels Like Yours
What will you put on yours?
A clock that fits your space. Information you care about. A page shaped around an idea of your own.
Describe it. Build it. Display it.
Help us bring SmallTV-Max—and the foundations for more personal desktop displays—to life.
Back SmallTV-Max on Kickstarter.
We believe the things on your desk should reflect you. Yet most desktop displays come with fixed pages: they show the time and weather, but leave little room for your own ideas.
So we asked ourselves: what if a screen could show what matters to you—and grow with what you imagine next? SmallTV-Max is our answer: a little desktop screen you can make your own.
We’re exploring a simpler way to start building for SmallTV-Max.
Instead of figuring out an unfamiliar project entirely on your own, imagine starting with a description:
“Help me create a desktop page with the weather, Bitcoin’s price, and a countdown to my next event.”
With GeekMagic’s development documentation, example projects, and device specifications, an AI coding assistant could help you turn that description into a first version of a page.
You could ask it to make the clock larger, simplify the layout, add a data field, or explain an error. You would review the result, test it, and refine it for the device.
As the tooling develops, our aim is to support more of the process—from understanding the project and writing code to helping with compilation and deployment.
You bring the idea. AI helps with development. SmallTV-Max gives the result a physical place on your desk.
This is a development direction, not a currently delivered one-prompt creation service. AI-generated code may need changes, testing, and optimization before it can run on the device.
We plan to release a basic framework for building SmallTV-Max interfaces, including
The goal is to help developers begin with a useful foundation and spend more time shaping their own ideas.
This is a developer toolkit. It is not a promise that every application can be built without code, or that every outside service can be connected automatically.
We want the SDK to be easier to explore, including for people learning their way around ESP32-S3 or an LVGL-based interface project.
That could help you ask an assistant to explain an example, modify a layout, or identify a resource problem while you learn how the project works.
We are also evaluating a Developer MCP: a possible connection between compatible AI development tools and the GeekMagic development workflow.
With the user’s authorization, our intended capabilities include
If realized, this could let an assistant participate in more of the journey from an idea to working hardware.
Different screen themes are available for different viewing needs.
Users can focus on a single asset, view a price chart or scan several selected assets from one market overview screen.
Instead of repeatedly opening a trading platform or financial app, key market information remains visible directly on the desktop.
Count up to track how long a task, meeting or activity has been running.Count down from a set duration for cooking, exercise, presentationsor focused work sessions.
The Pomodoro interface helps you move between focused work,short breaks and longer rest sessions.
More than a passive information screen, SmallTV-Max becomes
an active part of your daily workflow.
SmallTV-Max supports full-screen animated wallpapers and ambient clock themes, allowing it to function as a visual desktop accessory.
One device can shift from a practical productivity tool to an atmospheric display in seconds.
About Us
We are a creative digital hardware brand founded by software and hardware engineers together with industrial designers.
We focus on smart desktop devices that combine practical information, intuitive interaction and modern visual design. Our previous development experience covers connected weather clocks, digital photo displays, environmental information screens and other compact desktop hardware.
Through integrated software and hardware development, we aim to create products that are useful enough to remain on the desk every day—and visually distinctive enough that users want to keep them there.