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Those Icarus are batch 3, tested for several weeks by me. mostly test with cgminer rig development, use OpenWrt router as host.

I will take orders from tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23  5:00AM UTC+8 (don't send email before this time) ---- until all 40 are sold.

Price: 480USD + shipping cost.

Package content:   Icarus, usb cable, power adapter or power wire

All package will send by EMS (http://ems.com.cn/english.html)

This time we only accept BTC. after I receive order email I will send a new btc address to you. then after i receice the btc, I will ship your package immediately.

Orders take by email xiangfu.z@gmail.com, please add [ICARUS] to the subject. there is no confirm email. I will send you one email after I get the EMS track NO.(means packages already sent out, shipping from Beijing/China with EMS). please write those information in email:

1. How many Icarus you want.
2. You want power adapter or power wire. I advise you using your own ATX power if you order more then 2 Icarus.
3. Address detail:
       name:
       company(optional):
       address:
       city:
       province:
       country:
       ZIP:
       TEL:


More Icarus info please check:
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51371.0;all (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51371.0;all)
  http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Icarus (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Icarus)

How do you know who send what payment?
If someone watches http://blockexplorer.com/address/17haZtGFSMktDJjdm7K1WtcUcnsLYCbBLL or directly the network for a payment to that address he/she can send an email about it.
You can better make a new address for each payment.

thanks for advice. updated.

Shhh! I was going to do exactly that  ;)

1. Order 4 Icarus
2. Order 3 Icarus
3. Order 3 Icarus
4. Order 2 Icarus
5. Order 1 Icarus

May 23 update: 13 sold, 27 remaining

Could you include BOTH power adapter and power cable?
I don't know what the power cable look like. Do you have a picture?
Do you know where I can buy power adapter or power cable if you can't include both?

The power wire:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/w/images/thumb/2/2e/Icarus_Power_Wire.JPG/640px-Icarus_Power_Wire.JPG

The power adapter:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/w/images/thumb/0/03/Icarus_batch3_adapter_detail.jpg/640px-Icarus_batch3_adapter_detail.jpg
http://en.qi-hardware.com/w/images/thumb/0/06/Icarus_batch3_adapter.jpg/640px-Icarus_batch3_adapter.jpg

No, I cannot include both power adapter and power cable. I think it's easy to buy those kind of things, any power adapter that is
12v 2A is ok for Icarus. as I said if you buy more Icarus. I would advise use an ATX(PSU) power.

I only know where buy those kind of things in China: taobao.com, may be ebay also have them. more info:
   http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Icarus#Power_supply

Ahem.  VVV  ;) ;) ;) VVV

Quick update:
May 25:  20 sold, 20 remaining

What the buck regulators are used on the Icarus? What is their maximum output current per FPGA?

What you mean on " buck regulators are used on the Icarus",

You can find all information about Icarus here:
  http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Icarus

Quick update:
  May 26:  27 sold.

Actually this does not answer my question. The BOM linked from this wiki is incomplete. I am sure the type of buck regulator was discussed in some threads but I cannot find the information...

in the wiki page i see only linux commands. Windows are not proper for Icarus?

No. the wiki page only linux commands because I only do the Linux stuff.

There are windows cgminer:
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

And a python application MPBM:
  https://github.com/TheSeven/Modular-Python-Bitcoin-Miner

Those 2 application works fine under both Linux and Windows.

Icarus using : TPS40193, there are some of them using: TPS40192. Maximum power supply capacity is greater than 12A. (by ngzhang)

Quick update:
  11 still available.

Just curious, for those that are buying them- what's the expected break even period for this device?

With things like the block reward half coming and the BFL ASIC solution, nobody really knows.

You could say it is x months and it can turn out to be 10x months for example due to above unknown factors.

Mining is very risky all of a sudden :'(

Same applies to any solution right now, including GPUs etc.

currently it's ~388 days. Using the following variables for the input of math.

cost =                           $480
speed =                        ~380MH for now: source; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51371.0
Current difficulty =          ~1,591,075
BTC per day (100% pool)  ~0.24
BTC Price =                   ~$5.15
USD per day     =            @$1.236


=initial cost / gross per day
=480/1.236  =  388.35

Quick update:
  3 still available. another 8 sold

PM sent

Mine came in yesterday, thanks xiangfu!

Mail sent.

mine is here also. i was amazed about the simpleness of the setup in Win7.
You just need prolific USB to COM drivers and cgminer with command line
cgminer.exe -o http://xxx.com:8332 -u username -p password -S COMx --disable-gpu --failover-only
where COMx the COM port that Icarus is connected to (like: COM1,COM2, etc)
you should update wiki with this steps for windows users ;)

Better you do that. It allow edit without register. :-)

All 40 Icaurs sold. thanks for buying.

wow!

Now here is all sold out , anyone interested in ICArus boards should visit this topic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87298.0

There still some ICA available there.

Another 10 Icarus.  ;D