For what it is worth, just to kind of throw a thought out there -

ASICs generate crypto coins.  Crypto coins have value.  If I were an ASIC developer, I would not be interested in having random people test them.  I could simply test run the rigs in a lab, or basement or wherever, and collect coins.

I suppose maybe along the lines of why Ben Bernanke doesn't have beta testers for his US dollar printing press 

There are sites out there that allow you to earn bitcoins for free - I think that may be more productive than the 1 ASIC miner.

Hope that this may help