I hope you don't mind me jumping on this thread but I'm also interested in learning to mine Bitcoin.

I am soon going to have about 16Kw of solar fitted onto an empty factory roof and would like to use the spare solar/battery combination to run a single, top spec, ASIC miner.

However I have zero experience so I would first like to buy some low power kit to learn on at home. I've looked at the BitAxe kit and it seems to tick all the boxes - Low power, reasonable hash rate for playing and inexpensive. However it seems to run it's own integrated OS and requires no outside PC.

So my question is, can someone please recommend some ASIC hardware that is low power and inexpensive, but connects to an external PC so that I can learn to use and tune the latest miner application software?

I have a reasonably good Bitcoin knowledge and already run my own full node (Bitcoin Core on Ubuntu) and would like to get up to speed with the technicalities of mining before I commit to 'Serious' kit.

Thanks in advance for your help.