Thursday, August 18, 2011

Here’s where it’s at now

Test
100Mhash/s on the test board at this point, I’ve made a few improvements to the board to get it reach this point. Namely a small heatsink+fan combo and some rubber feet so it doesn’t short on anything on my table. Below are a couple of pictures.
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If you (the reader) hasn’t figured out what this is for yet, it’s a bitcoin mining board based on a Spartan-6 LX150 FPGA, at current code, it does 100Mhash/s max, this is estimated to hit 150-200Mhash with improved coding and routing techniques. Me and 2 other guys working together on this project, are aiming to bring this low power, high performance board out as soon as possible, more still to come.

Edit: Alright here's where to buy one, I've only a couple left at the moment.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37904.0

7 comments:

  1. You should open source this project. It's in the spirit of bitcoin.

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  2. The software is open source, spend a few hours of work routing a board and you'd come up to pretty much the same result.

    Working on a better board right now, still deciding if it'll be open sourced.

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  3. Would love to expand this design, would you care to share the eagle files (for strictly non-commercial use) in exchange for perhaps a small pile of PCBs when I make some?

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  4. I'm still torn between sharing this design and letting people rip this design off. I'll think about it somemore.

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  5. Put the PCB design on github. Opensource the project. It is the real spirit of bitcoin.

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  6. Put the PCB design on github. Opensource the project. It is the real spirit of bitcoin.

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  7. i do think this is amazing and for one would love to help work on them if they were Opensource. i like helping out with any thing that has to do with bitcoins

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