Use a cRIO as an FPGA miner?

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My robotics team has a few of these which we use as microcontrollers for our robots. They have a Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA inside of them, so I was wondering if it would be possible to set them up to mine bitcoins while we aren't using them.

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[WebWolf]

Holy crap, probably not a good idea. FIRST Robotics, yes? cRIO's are incredibly expensive, not sure if you have ever looked up the retail price of them, but they are will over a few thousand bucks. It would not be worth it to put it under the load, just to make a few coins. And doing so would probably require replacing the firmware, meaning you can't use your bots with it. :\

[WebWolf]

Oops, I made an assumption... Looks like they changed equipment to a cheaper cRIO in the past few years, out team had a jumbo 7 slot one that was crazy expensive. Still not worth it, I would believe.

[Signus]

My robotics team has a few of these which we use as microcontrollers for our robots. They have a Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA inside of them, so I was wondering if it would be possible to set them up to mine bitcoins while we aren't using them.

If you can program it to do so (look for open source projects using the same FPGAs for a bitsteam to use), please share it with the rest of us. I'd be interested in seeing that.