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Hi guys,

Is there any way to get an old S3 blade running with a raspi that's already running cgminer?

This is just a thought as I have a half dead S3+ sitting under my desk.

Thanks in advance.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164015.60

Thanks for the reply. All that info is way beyond my capabilities though. I was hoping for a more straight forward solution  :-\

A straightfoward solution for hacking a piece of proprietary electronics with a proprietary multi-signal data and power connection and undocumented communication protocol to work with an off-the-shelf mini computer?

I was going to scoff at the idea, but actually around here that's a reasonable request. But around here, technical competency is also a typical precondition. It shouldn't be that difficult (in fact, mostly a software problem) to run pretty much any AntMiner board off a straightforward USB adapter, provided you aren't concerned about temperature control (since sensor interfacing happens through connections independent from ASIC communication). It's probably possible to build a microcontroller interface that convolves all the sensor and chip-comm traffic into a single connection to be relayed to a generic computer.

 :o. Whooooosh!!

That went straight over my head  :D

After reading it three times. I've deciphered some of the lingo and worked out that it's not that hard, just need the right bits and a bit of software jigerypokery to get it to talk in a similar language (well not about how hot it is anyway).

I bow to your superior knowledge as anything along these lines is well beyond me. Although saying that I'm prepared to give some things a go aslong as I can follow step by step. I am only in the building trade but always interested in computers in general, just never to any real depth.