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For our Show Us What You’re Doing with Tiiny challenge, we asked people to share what they do with their Tiiny. This week, we’re sharing five community posts, from volunteer training tools to a 304-page family history.

01 · Civil Protection training

by carlomascellani

Carlo built an app for Civil Protection volunteers to

Each title below opens a tutorial with videos and links to detailed written instructions in Tiiny Help. For first-time setup, start with connection and activation.

1. Set Up Your Tiiny Pocket: Connect, Power On, and Activate

Connect your Tiiny to power and your computer, then activate it in TiinyOS. Watch the connection

On Linux, use the Tiiny SDK and CLI to connect to your device and run inference. The TiinyOS desktop app currently supports macOS and Windows.

Watch the video

Written setup instructions

Check Tiiny Help for system support and Linux update instructions.

For the full setup, follow t

To connect an app or Agent to Tiiny, you’ll need the Base URL, API Key, and exact Model ID. Choose the API format your app requires.

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Written instructions in Tiiny Help

Follow the detailed setup steps to find your connection values and choose an API format.

For apps

Want Tiiny to work with your own documents? This tutorial introduces Tiiny Vault and how to use it in Task Mode.

Watch the video walkthrough below, or follow the detailed written instructions in Tiiny Help.

Watch the video

Follow the detailed written guide

Prefer to read and follo

Before importing a Hugging Face model, check the supported base models, file formats, and repository requirements in Tiiny Help.

Choose the video for your computer below.

Watch the video for your OS

macOS

Windows

Download models from Model Store, then use the model management panel to load or unload them.

Open the panel from the Floating Button or the Tiiny icon in the macOS menu bar or Windows system tray.

Start with the model management video, then choose the Floating Button video for your OS.

Watch the videos

Model management

Open Chat, select a text generation model, and enter your request. Start with a question, a translation, or a paragraph you want to rewrite.

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Written instructions in Tiiny Help

Use the detailed written guide to learn when to choose Chat Mode or Task Mode, including

Connect your Tiiny Pocket to power and your computer, then activate it in TiinyOS. Each stage below includes a video and a link to the detailed written instructions.

1. Connect and power on

Use the included power adapter and cable, and connect your computer to the USB-C port labeled To PC.

Watch the video

Share something you’ve tried with Tiiny on TiinyVerse. A daily task, a workflow, a model or Agent test, a creative experiment, or a workaround all count. Unfinished is fine.

Post your use case by December 31 to join.

How to participate

1. Publish a post about your use case in TiinyVerse.

2. Add the UseCase tag. That enters you.

I put together a short list of posts I'd send to someone who just unboxed a Tiiny. They cover personal tools, everyday apps and files, learning, document work, and finished projects. I grouped them by what people were trying to do.

This list is updated as new posts go up.

Personal tools and visual experiments

I Asked Tiin

TiinyVerse is a community for exploring Personal AI in practice. People ask questions, share creations and use cases, request agents or workflows, publish guides, join Challenges, and learn from others building with Tiiny.

Anyone can sign up to like and comment. Posting requires a bound Tiiny device, which keeps the con

In TiinyVerse, good contributions are seen and valued.

When you share something useful, help another user, or build something real with Tiiny, you are helping make the community better. Points and Coins are part of how we recognize and support those contributions.

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