Arduboy Mini was unveiled through a crowdfunding campaign launched on 5 December 2022 by Kevin Bates. It retains Arduboy’s philosophy as an open 8-bit video game platform, but reduces it to an extremely small board with a monochrome OLED screen and integrated controls. The project was promoted as compatible with the Arduboy game ecosystem and with an explicit focus on programming and learning. Therefore, 2022 corresponds to its public unveiling and the start of its Kickstarter campaign, rather than to conventional commercial distribution already established throughout that year.