[ANN] FutureBit MoonLander: A Modern and Efficient Scrypt USB Stick Miner!

[Psi]

good work, have been looking for something like this, will order a few soon

[jstefanop]

New boards came in! This one is ready for its solder paste job Should have review units assembled and shipped out tomorrow, and a vid of some nice hashing blinking leds

[Eliovp]

New boards came in! This one is ready for its solder paste job Should have review units assembled and shipped out tomorrow, and a vid of some nice hashing blinking leds

*image*

Even more interested now :-)

Keep it up! Will definitely follow this thread even more now

[peonminer]

watching, need some!

[hashmaster1]

I would like to  get 3 of those miners look good I been mining for 4 years and I tried lost of miners this one look promising...can you pm me with more detail on your unit....

[sobe-it]

I will take a few

[peonminer]

Can we get a hashing video pleaseeeee?

[jstefanop]

Can we get a hashing video pleaseeeee?

Here you go! I got a little behind with thanksgiving but here is the video I promised of the pre-production version of the stick hashing. Video does not show off the LEDs that great but the Red led lights up when instructions are sent to the ASIC, and the yellow LED blinks when it returns a nonce response. I also sent out a few beta/review sticks so should see a review or two soon from people other than me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSz6pBTUGZY

[jstefanop]

Now to the fun stuff...you guys get to decide what color the PCB should be for the stick. I added a poll so place your votes! The heatsink will be black anodized.

[peonminer]

I voted green, but i'd be happy with black too. Man I wish I could have snagged one of the developer sticks for review! I just received my stake box for review, will be in my signature soon. (: Let us know when you can expand production. I'll snag a few at least.

[sobe-it]

I voted red but would be cool with black too!

[notlist3d]

I voted red but would be cool with black too!

I went with Blue but any of the color's mentioned would look very nice.  Here is like every stick miner ever from realsteve if you want to see some miners with different colors if it helps anyone - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464496.0

[philipma1957]

I voted yellow.  I will review one or buy one .

let me know when you need coin.

[notlist3d]

I don't think there is a bad color.  Only one I kinda think is boring is green... just seen to many PCB's in my life with that color.

But others are all great I think it's great. I hope you are able to extend bath in group buys

[peonminer]

That's why I changed my mind from green immediately after voting. Yellow is ideal, the moon is made of cheese after all. The black heat sink will represent the 'dark side' of the 'moon'. Perfection?

[notlist3d]

Some shots showing off the prototype, a special thanks to jstefanop for working with me over the weekend.

For slideshow and higher resolution pictures: http://s100.photobucket.com/user/notlist3d/slideshow/moonlander?sort=3

[Eliovp]

Don't know if Stefan still reads this thread, i sent you a pm a while ago regarding the purchase of a few sticks. I never got a reply.

Could you please check your messages and reply if possible.

thank you

[jstefanop]

Don't know if Stefan still reads this thread, i sent you a pm a while ago regarding the purchase of a few sticks. I never got a reply.

Could you please check your messages and reply if possible.

thank you

PM sent...


I have also expanded batch size so if people still interested id place deposit soon, there are 130 left and that will be it.

[jstefanop]

Final numbers are in for PCB color...here are the totals between both forums

Green  5
Red     6
Blue    10
Black  12
Yellow 7

Total Votes 40


Close one between Blue and Black but black takes it! Should look pretty sick with all black heatsink+pcb. I do have to give props to peon miner for his suggestion though


Im finishing up component and PCB orders today and tomorrow...so now waiting game begins for everything to come over the next two weeks. Should still be on schedule to ship end of Dec/first week of January.

[jstefanop]

Some updates for you guys and more pics!

Finally got windows driver working, so all 3 native bfgminer drivers for Mac, Windows, and Linux are pretty much ready. Below is a screenshot of the window driver testing with the final production version of the PCB. As you can see I got the high end of the stick pretty stable, most of you Alcheminer owns can attest that .33% HW errors on this chip is pretty amazing Im pretty happy where the final version is and hope you guys agree! I was hoping that I could also make it super stable past 1 MH but unfortunately I think I have reach the limit of this chip...so much you can push a 40nm chip...



Below are pics of the board iterations...as you can see I shaved nearly 10mm off the original board...this does amazing things to voltage drop and efficiency!



And here is my prototype lunar army ready to take over the moon. Last one is the final production design.