Quote from: starmman on September 01, 2016, 05:58:23 AM

Quote from: EverGreenCoin on August 31, 2016, 01:06:53 PM

Quote from: starmman on August 31, 2016, 11:31:09 AM

Quote from: EverGreenCoin on August 31, 2016, 04:13:23 AM

Our good friend GrumpyTiger is experimenting with a solar-powered Pine64 staking EverGreenCoin. He is wrapped up with some personal matters, but he said I could share his picture with the community.

That looks awesome - I need to get myself one of those =) I'd probably need some backup power over here in the UK as we don't often get sunlight =)

I live in Ohio where we have much overcast most all of the year from the great lakes. In the winter when we have very few daylight hours, it seams like we don't see the sun for days. I have never had the pleasure of visiting the UK but, I did have a once in a lifetime journey to Ireland, thanks to my crypto involvement. We are planning for areas like yours and mine, starmman, and designing a way more panels/batteries can be added. We also, as of Monday, are adding the ability for the EGC solar staker/miner to be plugged into a wall outlet for those that live in a flat/apartment that may have little or no daylight inside nor the ability to place a device outside.

The pictures device is not the device we are presently designing the EGC solar staker/miner around. Because we are aiming for a price under 100 USD we need to focus more of that cost on panels and batteries, we are designing around a CHIP. The Pine64 is an interesting device and so are the solar packs GrumpyTiger has pictured. But the Pine64 seems to be an overkill that would need even more panels and more batteries to run, pushing costs far above the target. The EGC solar staker/miner will also not have a keyboard nor a mouse as it will be accessible via a web browser on the same attached local network. We also are experimenting with a small LCD, which may be an optional add-on.

We are doing our very best to design the EGC solar staker/miner as a product that can be used in as many geographical locations as possible. Community ideas or comments are greatly appreciated. Thank you all!

Sounds great. I currently to a small amount of XMG staking on a raspberry pi (anoter coin with eco credentials) which only uses a couple of watts of power, but its plugged into a monitor which takes much more power when on - solar capability, even for the monitor would be a great next step. I'm sure the magi (XMG) community would be interested in this too =)

i agree with many points here the pine 64 did turn out more costly with the board, case, 7 inch lcd touch screen, and Wifi 802.11BGN/ Bluetooth 4.0 Module it ended being around 100 and thats not including cords, keyboard, mouse ect. got all the parts now just need to get the time to connect it all together and maybe a couple more cords. in the mean time i am going to plug my phone up to the solar charger after it has had its full day of charge and leave it on pandora just to see how far it will go. big issue for me for a month now is i cant for the life of me get the remix os successfully installed on the mini sd and its driving me nuts lmao. im willing to offer some egc to anyone that can successfully put it on a card and mail it to me. regardless of price this newbie is having fun and learning a lot most parts came from profits of the egc rip earlier in the month so no loss if things dont go right and if it does go right all the more reason to kick back and smoke a victory blunt. i do have a full plate and it is taking a while i need to pick up the pace a little because the main piece to my second tinker project is here im going to try to fit this bad boy with solar strips to try to give it longer flight time main personal reason is so i can fit one later that has follow me mode so i can record a whole or a good part of the mountain bike races i do from time to time. dream? maybe we will see. what happened to my first quad? well it had an accident before i could get strips for it lol.