Re: Is there interest in a standalone low power miner?

Quote from: rapsacw on June 16, 2023, 12:57:36 PM

The big difference is that the Compac F needs a computer attached to it to run as it uses cgminer software that requires hefty hardware to run on. My miners are standalone and require no computer.
Some links to my github;
Picture of webinterface of my software https://github.com/rapsacw/Basic-BM1387-miner/blob/main/aSiNine%20ESP%20miner%20v0.01.png
(this runs on the miner)
Github page to hard&software (to be updated soon, I'm only one person doing ALL the work) https://github.com/rapsacw

But the ESP32 is a computer... All asic miners have one to run the mining software (aka "control" board), they are ARM based, but i assume sooner or later they will switch to RISC-V like you did. China is particularly strongly interested in moving out from arm into risc-v.

So technically you just need to plug the Compac F to one of those SoC solutions via USB and port/compile cgminer to the appropriate architecture or replace it with your own mining software.

I'm curious about the availability of BM1387 at this point, shouldn't you aim for later chips now?