Gitzian streaming kits are now available on Tindie and Lectronz.

• Buy on Tindie
• Buy on Lectronz

Buying a kit helps finance further work on the project and gives you a low-power, very-low-latency streaming setup for custom small-display builds.

The kit is meant for projects where the client device stays compact and efficient while the actual computation runs on a desktop, workstation, or server.

Possible uses:

• Cyberdecks
• Dashboards
• Control panels
• Handheld terminals
• Art installations
• Compact remote desktops
• Custom small-screen interfaces

The host currently supports Windows 11 and Debian Trixie with KDE Plasma. The accelerated path uses DirectX or OpenGL ES 3.1 capable systems, with GPU encoding around 3 ms per frame on supported hardware. Software rendering is also possible.

If you have a niche use case and need special support, feel free to reach out. Because I control the full pipeline, I can add project-specific features such as custom APIs, niche display support, special control flows, or application-specific streaming behavior.

The hardware is kept flexible so you can adapt the kit, swap parts, or build your own device around it.

The software side now has the hardware-accelerated streaming path in place through the Gitzian GPU Streamer, with setup paths for Windows, Linux / KDE Plasma, Raspberry Pi clients, viewport streaming, virtual display setups, firmware updates, and recovery notes.

Gitzian is becoming a small-display platform: ready hardware, a documented host streamer, a Raspberry Pi client, downloads, open reference designs around the decoder, and clearer DIY entry points for people who want to build their own hardware around it.

The software side is hardware accelerated, the setup flow is documented, and the website now explains the project as something people can use, buy, hack, and extend. This opens the door to compact remote desktops, control panels, handheld experiments, dashboards, communicator screens, multi-display setups, and other custom small-screen DIY projects.

If you want, you can buy hardware soon. Check out my newsletter or get notifications on Tindie or Lectronz.

Next focus:

• More supported displays
• Cleaner demo-device integration
• Multi-display experiments
• Battery and enclosure work
• The simple hardware keyboard

The roadmap has been updated to reflect the current direction and priorities.

PCB designed for current roadmap. Measured surprisingly low power consumption at full brightness <=1.5W. Board footprint significantly reduced vs previous revision and now split into 3 modular parts for on-demand exchange (input(network) – decoder – output(display driver), e.g., switch between different displays or RJ45 instead of WiFi). Next step: Optimize network stream for full throughput, run latency tests, implement touchscreen support, and publish results in the next few weeks.

Done with the FPGA programming for the current roadmap. Achieving <20ms per Frame @100Mhz clock frequency. Next step: Designing a PCB for testing in the field.

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