I've been tinkering with the 3D rendering in Kicad this morning so people can see what this could look like.
My current projection for retail price is $16 for a kit, and $25 for assembled - both NOT including the ASIC.
A kit would include a plastic stencil (1 per order only) and heat sink, and you'd need a skillet or toaster oven, and some skillz to put it together. I still have to source a suitable heat sink - something 1" x 1.5" would be ideal. I'm looking for something awesome but cheap.
Assembled ones would be ready to use - you'd send me an ASIC, I'd assemble and ship back.
This is upside down. The bottom will have something covering it like compound or a plastic wafer of some sort. The top would be a heat sink - no 3D model for that.
You won't see these until at least July but if I have a sample ASIC then I'll make a prototype and take pre-orders when I know it's functional, pending only ASICs then. Check out my Klondike 16 board if you need more than 1 ASIC per board. I'm expecting the K16 won't need to be fully filled, and at $35/kit would be better for multiple chips.
My current projection for retail price is $16 for a kit, and $25 for assembled - both NOT including the ASIC.
A kit would include a plastic stencil (1 per order only) and heat sink, and you'd need a skillet or toaster oven, and some skillz to put it together. I still have to source a suitable heat sink - something 1" x 1.5" would be ideal. I'm looking for something awesome but cheap.
Assembled ones would be ready to use - you'd send me an ASIC, I'd assemble and ship back.
This is upside down. The bottom will have something covering it like compound or a plastic wafer of some sort. The top would be a heat sink - no 3D model for that.
You won't see these until at least July but if I have a sample ASIC then I'll make a prototype and take pre-orders when I know it's functional, pending only ASICs then. Check out my Klondike 16 board if you need more than 1 ASIC per board. I'm expecting the K16 won't need to be fully filled, and at $35/kit would be better for multiple chips.
I'm just looking into KiCad for the first time. Very interesting. Has your experience been positive?
This single chip USB miner is what I had set out to do originally (been very busy and away for a while), but still 100%
committed. Most of the non-avalon portion of the schematic is complete with good and cheap components selected ready to order.
If you plan to make this single AVALON USB miner open source like the Klondike, would you post it on Github?
I'll start learning KiCad right away (it's open source; it deserves the time) and integrate my discoveries/designs into
what you have so far for peer review.
Please email me.
BTW, does anyone have a name for this device yet? It needs one.
