Miner Development

[appleannie]

I hope this is in the right spot. I am an engineering student and am about to do a project for Student Professional Experience. I am going to develop my own USB miner. I bought these Maxim IC Chips off eBay. The data sheet on the chips can be found here.http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/73147/MAXIM/MAX3232CSE.html
I hope these will work. I could use any advice other developers can give me. Also, maybe you could give me a rough idea of what each one will do for me.

Thanks

[starsoccer9]

I hope this is in the right spot. I am an engineering student and am about to do a project for Student Professional Experience. I am going to develop my own USB miner. I bought these Maxim IC Chips off eBay. The data sheet on the chips can be found here.http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/73147/MAXIM/MAX3232CSE.html
I hope these will work. I could use any advice other developers can give me. Also, maybe you could give me a rough idea of what each one will do for me.

Thanks

well depending on what your trying to build. You for sure wont be able to compete with asic chips, but you could try to get it to work with an alternative cryptocurrency. Like primecoin for example.

[aosmith]

I hope this is in the right spot. I am an engineering student and am about to do a project for Student Professional Experience. I am going to develop my own USB miner. I bought these Maxim IC Chips off eBay. The data sheet on the chips can be found here.http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/73147/MAXIM/MAX3232CSE.html
I hope these will work. I could use any advice other developers can give me. Also, maybe you could give me a rough idea of what each one will do for me.

Thanks

This looks like an rs-232 chip, how are you planning on doing the hashing?

[appleannie]

I spoke with the professor today. It looks like I might be sending these chips back. Do you, or anyone have a link you can share to find the open source code for the sha algo. Also, maybe there is a link you can share that gives a list of the materials on one of these miners. I found 7" x 11" boards, I think I might not make them USBs. I am still in the planning stage.
Do you think these are good chips to use? Can I not have one of the programmers program the chops? Like I said I am a student trying to gain some experience while in school.
Thank you

[aosmith]

I spoke with the professor today. It looks like I might be sending these chips back. Do you, or anyone have a link you can share to find the open source code for the sha algo. Also, maybe there is a link you can share that gives a list of the materials on one of these miners. I found 7" x 11" boards, I think I might not make them USBs. I am still in the planning stage.
Do you think these are good chips to use? Can I not have one of the programmers program the chops? Like I said I am a student trying to gain some experience while in school.
Thank you

Personally I think you'd get a lot more out of using an FPGA.  Otherwise you'll need to buy ASICs from one of the big guys.