We want to design a USB miner...please help

[adnanabbas]

Hello to all.

Cut a long story short. My old man is going to fund the project. I would like to design a USB miner. Could someone please point me in the right direction. I need design info (PCB, chips)

Thanks

[HellDiverUK]

Not sure if serious. 

[adnanabbas]

I am dead serious, I have been looking at Klondike Design. I just need some guidance.

[Beastlymac]

What chip to you plan to base your design off?

[adnanabbas]

I was hoping to use the ANTMINER chips

[RickJamesBTC]

Have you ever had a custom PCB made? Designed one?

[Anddos]

I would you suggest get an fpga starter kit from amazon,there is no well in hell you can just presume you can create a usb miner without knowing how circuitry works.

[adnanabbas]

I am hoping to start from scratch

[atmclikk]

dude....  someone already did this and released the entire BOM (bill of materials), Gerber Docs, etc.  It was for bitfury chips.  Search the custom hardware forum.

really, all you need to do then (you say you are funded, right?) is buy a boatload of bitfury chips (im not sure where you get a boatload of BF chips...  actually think there may be a shortage right now) then find a PCB Fabrication outfit that is willing to basically take the design and the asic chips and assemble them into your new usb miners.  in theory, its actually a viable business plan for someone with little to no EE experience, just some business sense and be able to figure out what different files in which format you need to supply to the Fab house.

good luck dude.  if i happen to remember the name of the project i will update.

[atmclikk]

these types of threads always have some quasi insane twist...

im really unsure of what you were expecting to get from people here...  a walk through tutorial on miner building?  If thats it, I would probably hunt down someone who has done it before and pay him or her to teach you....

[adnanabbas]

dude....  someone already did this and released the entire BOM (bill of materials), Gerber Docs, etc.  It was for bitfury chips.  Search the custom hardware forum.

really, all you need to do then (you say you are funded, right?) is buy a boatload of bitfury chips (im not sure where you get a boatload of BF chips...  actually think there may be a shortage right now) then find a PCB Fabrication outfit that is willing to basically take the design and the asic chips and assemble them into your new usb miners.  in theory, its actually a viable business plan for someone with little to no EE experience, just some business sense and be able to figure out what different files in which format you need to supply to the Fab house.

good luck dude.  if i happen to remember the name of the project i will update.

What you have explain here, is exactly the situation im in. I will search the forum to see what i can find. As far as boat load of chips go, I don't want to commit buying tons of chips. Samples  to work with would be a good start.

[reactor]

I would you suggest get an fpga starter kit from amazon,there is no well in hell you can just presume you can create a usb miner without knowing how circuitry works.

Totally off-topic, never even thought to look for something like that despite being curious about tinkering in hardware as a hobby.  Thanks for the otherwise obvious idea.

[vs3]

dude....  someone already did this and released the entire BOM (bill of materials), Gerber Docs, etc.  It was for bitfury chips.  Search the custom hardware forum.

Yup - one such example is the NanoFury

See my signature for more details.

[forzendiablo]

i admien what u want to do - i cant help since i dont know anything but dont listen to peopel saying u cant.

if u want, u can do anythign and learn it.

[rostbiffen]

I was hoping to use the ANTMINER chips

Antminer is not a chip.
Antminer U1 USB uses BITMAIN chips,
minimum order qty from bitmain is 99 BTC in LOT of 10,000 pcs.

Bitfury chips are almost imposible to find.

You can join group buys for chips, but i think you need volume to eran money on this. With smaler volumes it is cheaper to buy from sushi.