[Noisebridge-discuss] DIY ASIC Miners

[Gavin Knight]

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Monday

Bring some cash if you want to purchase a hardware kit, everything else is
there.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, andre williams
<andrewilliamsyo at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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