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Would anyone know how many, if any, 60s you could run on a Rasberry Pi?  Have a few and would be great if it was possible.

If power is your concern, get a powered USB hub. The USB bus would likely max out before CPU was an issue.

Single SC (60Gh) has its own power supply.

About USB device limit see this: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13858 (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13858)

First I have heard of a Raspberry Pi. Very Cool! Guess I have been out of the nerd loop for a couple of years.... easing my way back in.

I'm going to do the same thing but with the android one. Its has a case and cords already for only $50.

I have a raspberry pi and it is a great bit of gear - but one limitation to work with is its somewhat underpowered USB implementation, due to it itself being powered from a USB power supply. This makes it sensitive with which USB devices work with it. Raspberry pi forums discussions on power supply quality, compatible devices, which powered hubs play well with it, are worth further reading.

a Raspberry should be fine...
powered hubs are teh way to go
if your going to buy one get from element14 / farnell not RS / allied as the former has good stocks and the latter are having distributional problems

i'm planning on ordering off element 14 :)

Thanks for all the great advice.  Have one from RT but will be needing a few more as we are planning to get 10 60's.  Just trying to work out how many devices we will need to run the from.

Watertrooper -  where are you getting the android ones from, havent seen them around... will definitely look into that.

according to a bfl email I recieved some days ago the SCs will use common miners like CGMiner or
BFGMiner, but BFL have not tested if the mining software runs on ARM themselves so you won't get a compiled version from bfl as it seems

I still type farnell every time  ::)

make sure you get a decent power supply a lot of phone chargers are only 500ma but it is not hard to find a 1A one as long as you know that is what you are looking for.

So no standard miners that would run on Pi's?  And for android?  I am sure if there is not one yet, there will be someone working on it, makes more sense than running them from PCs no?

Have one 1A but thanks for reminding me, will definitely need to a few more  8)

well there is at least one youtube video about a rhaspberry pi used for fpga mining, but as I mentioned you might have to compile the miner from sourcecode yourself

re raspberry PI's
they now ship with 512Mb RAM

I love my raspberry pi running a Single FPGA.