Topic: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner! - page 22. (Read 37614 times)

After some scares and heart attacks this week we finally have units moving out to production and ready for shipping tomorrow!!!

Long story short first units coming out of testing all failed so my nightmares of a botched batch 1 I thought had come true. Quickly found it was just just an assembly error and there was a missing washer between the heatsink springs and PCB which was causing shorts.

This is fixed and now all units coming off the line are working better than I could have imagined. So here is the very first production unit! Real non rendered version hashing away!



below is the final shipping interface...this is early beta and should be releasing the image tomorrow for you guys to copy to SD cards...keep in mind this part is a work in progress now that production issues are out of the way and will turn my attention to making the best ASIC miner software, with features like solo mining, full Litecoin nodes + wallet functionality, and full LN node functionality all planed to be released in the coming months. I plan on not only having this be a miner, but every miner being a node+wallet+LN node and being a truly powerful crypto platform that sits on your desk!



I know you guys are super anxious and am getting your emails, but please try and not email me about shipping until the end of next week, everything is going out in the order of pre-orders so if you ordered towards the end of september your units wont ship out until late next week, but am hoping to have almost all units out by end of next week.

Super thank you to all pre-orders that again made this possible, and you guys have been really patient which is why I love this community and has made this a tad less stressful the last few months

Gridseed blades, ASIC 's, gridseeds with no fans, Zeus Blizzard and Thunder its amazing the amount of scrap metal I have laying around. I might have to get back on ebay and unload my antiques soon. hopefully soon, real soon.

Can't wait to get it running with the difficulty the way it is. Any updates?!

Looking forward to this week! To find out if I am one of the lucky first few orders to get his Apollo sent

Can't wait for shipping numbers. What is the current status of things?

When will you be accepting more orders? I was one of your first eBay buyers of the Moonlander 2. If you get any cancellations please let me know! Thanks.

Worthless report, way too much indication they did NOT actually study anything.

This one phrase is enough to indicate how WORTHLESS this "report" is.

"Currently, some of the prominent players operating in the global cryptocurrency market are BitFury Group Limited, Microsoft Corporation, Alphapoint Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and Intel Corporation."

They left out Bitmain and AMD (both of which make a LOT more from cryptocurrency than Nvidia does).
Microsoft has almost NO presence in Cryptocoin at this time.
Never heard OF Alphapoint but they're definitely NOT a "prominent player".
Intel has ZERO presence in cryptocoin other than indirect as a fairly common choice for CPUs to put on motherboards for GPU rigs.

If the rest of their "research" is as shoddy at THAT statement, their report is 100% worthless.

I've been piecing this together but these are some links that someone else recommended and they seem to be great recommendations:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=HP+750W+Server+Power+Supply+HSTNS-PL18+506821-001+506822-201+511778-001&_sacat=0

and one of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1200W-Breakout-Board-for-HP-PSU-GPU-Mining-Ethereum-ZEC-ZCASH-ETH-DPS-1200FB-QB/163036848758

PSUs will only use as much electricity as required for output. 750W would be good for up to three Apollos at full hash power. If you don't want a server PSU, make sure you get at least a gold rated PSU.

Hello, am new here. Wondering if a new atx PSU will come with 6 pin PCI-E connectors? If not, what will I need to buy. Excited to get the Apollo. Could you post some links to PSU so the not so techy guys like myself know exactly what to buy? Thanks!

In the meantime my Innosilicon A4+ is hashing away helping me to pay for my initial investment in Apollo!

Believe the wait is worth it if I look at the design!

Glad to have one orderd and cant wait to have it, thanks jstefanop for that awesome Work ! 

Cheeers

When I first launched the original Moonlander, it was when LTC was $2 after a high of $50 earlier in the year. Interesting that the Apollo is also launching in this bear market....just collect those coins, history always repeats itself

Quick update on production, the sheet metal part of the case was delayed a bit due to our supplier being close to the Cali wild fires, and since it is Thanksgiving this week in the stats our production line is closed wed-fri so we are now looking at first shipping going out on the week of the 26th.

Its been a longer journey than I anticipated to get here, but we are almost there and Im really proud of what we have accomplished with this device and hope you guys agree when you get your hands on them soon.

I was concerned about the cost of this and the recent falling price of Litecoin but read this from yesterday (MarketWatch link provided):

"Another cryptocurrency named Litecoin is expected to again traction in the near future."

Like all investments there are cycles of high/low, so hanging in there.

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/cryptocurrency-market-to-reach-us670-bn-by-2025-absence-of-third-party-intermediary-triggers-demand---tmr-2018-11-14

I have my sd card, power supply, and breaker board all ready for it! I just need a good place to get two 6 pin to 6 pin connectors for the rig. Is there a good place to get them? I see a lot of 6 pin to 8 pin pci cables but I was not sure if those would be good enough.

And thank you futurebit! The product is looking awesome!

Woah looking like one sweet device, wish id ordered more too. Great design 

Very cool design, great job. 

It looks awesome, well worth the extra one week of waiting!!

I should have ordered 2  of them.  Damn it looks really nice.

Final case design...the middle sheetmetal part will get to our factory by end of the week so we might have the first shipments going out then!

Proud to have built it for Futurebit products! Apollo Web App is ready to run and monitor your miners!
Go get one! :-)