I think you can take chips and make them able to mine by paying a person.
Sorry i didnt get that.
What you mean with "make them able to mine" ??
You'll have to find someone who knows what to do with the chips.
I've thought about buying some, and hitting up a few people to help research it... also thought about doing it myself and documenting all of my follies on the intraweb.
Apparently you need 8 chips minimum since the only configurations that seem to be out there are 8 and 16 chip boards.