Quote from: ReCat on April 12, 2013, 10:37:34 PM

http://www.amazon.com/General-Purpose-Transistor-2N3904-NPN/dp/B004J5ZWEQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365805741&sr=8-1&keywords=NPN+transistors

Buy about 50,000 of those, then get started by turning them into standard logic gates, and then design a hardware description, and then build it with your transistors. Simple and easy. Except it'll take you a few thousand years to construct it by hand.

Tongue

On a serious note. Your best bet for making your own hardware miner is forgetting about ASIC and going with FPGA.

http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de2/unv-de2-board.html

It'll cost you 200-ish if you can convince them you're buying for educational purposes. Just get some existing FPGA miner and plonk it down.

Quote from: mmeijeri on April 12, 2013, 10:59:35 PM

Quote from: davidshrugged on April 12, 2013, 08:40:04 PM

Doing a home made ASIC is not a trivial.

Not just not trivial, totally impossible. You can design an ASIC at home, but to produce it you need a multi billion dollar factory. If you bring enough dollars, and buy enough units, the companies owning those factories will happily produce them for you. That's what's happening with Avalon and BFL.

Then I can't make a ASIC only buying some FPGAs and some wires... Undecided

Well, let's buy some ASICs as a co-op, when we have enough money I'll call Foxconn to assembly in line production (and sell it only a bit cheaper than AVALON)