Rooster Teeth did a "Rage Quit" video on "Alex Kidd in Miracle World" about 2 years ago, Yatzee (zero punctual) did a "Let's drown out" with it a year ago, also HappyConsoleGamer did a review on it about a year ago too, if you want to hunt down them videos on youtube.
it was the 1st and last time that i know of, consoles had an inbuilt game with them. i thought all consoles should have this feature, half expected nintendo64 would of had one...
but yeah, evolution of the mining hardware, i remember when it was all just speculation, then the eruptor came out for the public (yes yes, there was avalon for thousands and 40 months waiting period, and bfl just bfl'ing everyone before it), expensive even for the price comparison to a video card that did better then it, but it was USB! you could plug it in any USB host! had TP-Links "3g routers" running them! couldn't do that with video cards, it was so much cheaper to run (i still have 2 of them, collecting dust now, but still able to hash away)
then s-crypt came out as asic, via a little hack on the encryption code or some odd thing like that, didn't need the MB of ram to run it.. i don't know, once it came out in asic form, i back away from it, and gaw just destroyed the market for it.
Also, just to report - the rigged prototype has been running at 200MHz (11GH/s) off 630mV and about 700mA (approximately 0.32W/GH) for 68 hours with 12 HW errors reported. I'm okay with that.
It's excellent but it's impossible to make a ROI with a USB miner unless you sell them for $5. Do you have plans to make something larger?
he has plans for 2 chip usb miner about 20gh and about 30 bucks.
he has plans for a bigger board.
that can attach to an s-1 or an s-3 heatsink.
dunand, the idea of usb miners is not to ROI, its to have fun with them, and enjoy pulling the hashrate over power consumption, not trying to make money back.
philipma1957, exactly, he is planing, not doing, things may change