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Board Hardware
Re: Is there interest in a standalone low power miner?
by
rapsacw
on 07/08/2023, 21:04:02 UTC

.. I think I would love to have such miner in my house running all the time like heater in the corner. I would be more than happy to pay the bills for it since it will be generating something all the time. I am anyway holder of bitcoin so if they just mine and sit in my wallet then also I would be more than happy.

However, this has to be real simple layman consumable product with not much wirings, not much maintenance kind of stuff. Since I am not a hard core miner I would be more focused on the hobby scale and flashing it as if I do mine.  Grin
You won't heat much with 12.5W Wink The only practical heating use I can think of is an egg incubator for 1-5 eggs Tongue
The miner is 'fire and forget' once you've got it running. It will start mining after power up without intervention. The configuration isn't hard either. That leaves the assembly; I'm not going to produce complete kits for different reasons, so in the end you will have to at least fix the heatsink (not sure if I will sell them with the pcb) and fan (ditto) to the pcb (and apply thermal compound), either using tie wraps (that is what I am using rn) or 3d printed or laser cut brackets, and get a suitable usb charger + usb-c cable (and optional usb trigger pcb so you can power the miner with 9V). You can find some more info on this here https://github.com/rapsacw/aSiNine_and8