[Noisebridge-discuss] DIY ASIC Miners

[andre williams]

I'll definitely be there monday.  Should I bring anything or would there be
supplies there to get me started?


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> You can't expect to *build* a DIY miner with no previous experience, but
> you could feasibly help reverse-engineer an existing board as noted in
> the wiki page for the project.
>
> Unfortunately you'd need one of the existing boards to reverse-engineer
> and those are very hard to get ahold of.
>
> I'd recommend starting out with one of the standard CHM projects,
> soldering a through-hole project like a boarduino or a Trippy or a
> TV-b-gone, as your first project.  Then use an multimeter + oscilloscope
> to reverse-engineer the chip pin-out on your project, finding the Vcc
> and ground and PWM pins, so you get some experience with the skills
> needed for a more sophisticated effort like reversing an ASIC miner.
>
> -andy
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:09:12PM -0700, andre williams wrote:
> > Is this a realistic project for someone without any prior circuit hacking
> > experience?  Plan on attending the next upcoming circuit hacking classes
> to
> > hopefully get some insight, as it would be awesome to construct one of
> > these.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM, John Ellis <neurofog at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Gavin,
> > >
> > > I'd be more concerned about the ability to ship. FPGA miners seem to
> have
> > > a higher probability of actually shipping.
> > >
> > > I have an Apteva Parallela dev board on order, and may do some mining
> with
> > > that, mainly for fun.
> > >
> > > -John
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Gavin Knight <gnnrok at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> For anyone excited about the future of Bitcoin mining but not about
> the
> > >> costs.
> > >>
> > >> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=161715.0
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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- Andre
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