The Mini Lazarillo project was a pedagogical experiment undertaken by Susanna Allés-Torrent of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University with her colleague Alex Gil from Columbia Libraries during Spring 2016. Its main goal was to introduce students to skills needed to create a digital scholarly edition and to the principles of minimal computing or ?computing done under some technological constraints.?[1] Allés-Torrent and Gil chose a founding literary work of the picaresque genre in Spain, the anonymous 16th century novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades.