My portable Raspberry Pi setup for mining - page 3.

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Quote from: jackg on September 06, 2016, 03:46:54 PM

The GPIO pins are probably the best part of the PI for this.
I think there are live pins, neutral pins and pins to transfer data so they may be good for a connection to a GPU.
I'm not sure about this but if you research it I'm sure you can find something (BTW, the power needed to for the converters comes from one of those GPIO pins anyway).

Thanks for the info. But I think this requires some knowledge in electronics, right? Because I'm still a noob when it comes to working with electronics stuff such as soldering and working with the GPIO pins. However, if it is possible to have a workaround like this then it will be a blast! I will figure this out and keep you updated.

I'm still waiting for the price of the water and salt generator (battery) to be announced as I can't wait to try it with my little experiment. Now, I want to add sort of like a miniature printer onto the Pi to generate paper wallets instantly from within it. This last thing is optional, and mostly for fun. Cheesy

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Quote from: Abiky on September 06, 2016, 01:36:58 PM

Quote from: jackg on September 04, 2016, 09:30:07 AM

I think it was Eth that requires lots of RAM with the GPU to function better (though I may be wrong).

I think AMD radeon is one that is used often for mining.

I'd also advise you know how you could plug the GPUs into the raspberry pi (probably through research)?

Well I think that plugging external GPUs on the Raspberry Pi is not possible yet, but I'm going to give it a little research to see what I can achieve with this. In the meantime, I'm setting up a GPU mining rig with an ASROCK motherboard I have lying around using a single AMD Radeon Nano to see what would be the results mining ETH or ETC.

Based on what I have seen so far, it may be possible to connect a GPU to a Raspberry Pi using convertors that turn a USB port to ExpressCard and then plug in a PCI-E to ExpressCard convertor. However, I doubt that the performance if the GPU would be the same using this method Undecided

The GPIO pins are probably the best part of the PI for this.
I think there are live pins, neutral pins and pins to transfer data so they may be good for a connection to a GPU.
I'm not sure about this but if you research it I'm sure you can find something (BTW, the power needed to for the converters comes from one of those GPIO pins anyway).

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Quote from: jackg on September 04, 2016, 09:30:07 AM

I think it was Eth that requires lots of RAM with the GPU to function better (though I may be wrong).

I think AMD radeon is one that is used often for mining.

I'd also advise you know how you could plug the GPUs into the raspberry pi (probably through research)?

Well I think that plugging external GPUs on the Raspberry Pi is not possible yet, but I'm going to give it a little research to see what I can achieve with this. In the meantime, I'm setting up a GPU mining rig with an ASROCK motherboard I have lying around using a single AMD Radeon Nano to see what would be the results mining ETH or ETC.

Based on what I have seen so far, it may be possible to connect a GPU to a Raspberry Pi using convertors that turn a USB port to ExpressCard and then plug in a PCI-E to ExpressCard convertor. However, I doubt that the performance if the GPU would be the same using this method Undecided

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Quote from: Abiky on September 03, 2016, 04:03:02 PM

Quote from: jackg on August 31, 2016, 07:56:28 PM

It would take a while to ROI unless you picked up new coins and started mining them in the hope that they go from start-to-pump-to-dump and sell during the pump.
Ethereum was a really profitable coin to mine, however, I think the network difficulty has increased by quite a lot since it has been adopted.
I've also heard that the gerater the ram on the GPUs for eth mining, the more profitable it is. So you'd need like 16GB ram gpus in order to make the best profit and they may require separate batteries/renewable energy sources.

Thanks for the advice. Actually, I've never thought that the more RAM a GPU has the more ETH it will mine. Right now, I'm building my GPU mining rig step by step buying the parts one at a time in order to make it the ultimate ETH/ETC mining rig. I thinking of making it one that does not require an external case or tower in order to get better cooling. Liquid cooling would be best although it is much more expensive that using fans altogether.

I'm looking into buying one of those AMD Radeon Nanos. I wonder if it is good for coin mining by the way. Roll Eyes

I think it was Eth that requires lots of RAM with the GPU to function better (though I may be wrong).

I think AMD radeon is one that is used often for mining.

I'd also advise you know how you could plug the GPUs into the raspberry pi (probably through research)?

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Really cool project for educational purposes IMO.

The payoff for this must be pretty low though, are you actually just mining Bitcoins? Altcoins are probably the way to go with such a low spec device. I am yet to purchase a Rasberry Pi, not for mining...this looks like a pretty interesting project though so would be good to have some additional information on how you set it up.

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Quote from: jackg on August 31, 2016, 07:56:28 PM

It would take a while to ROI unless you picked up new coins and started mining them in the hope that they go from start-to-pump-to-dump and sell during the pump.
Ethereum was a really profitable coin to mine, however, I think the network difficulty has increased by quite a lot since it has been adopted.
I've also heard that the gerater the ram on the GPUs for eth mining, the more profitable it is. So you'd need like 16GB ram gpus in order to make the best profit and they may require separate batteries/renewable energy sources.

Thanks for the advice. Actually, I've never thought that the more RAM a GPU has the more ETH it will mine. Right now, I'm building my GPU mining rig step by step buying the parts one at a time in order to make it the ultimate ETH/ETC mining rig. I thinking of making it one that does not require an external case or tower in order to get better cooling. Liquid cooling would be best although it is much more expensive that using fans altogether.

I'm looking into buying one of those AMD Radeon Nanos. I wonder if it is good for coin mining by the way. Roll Eyes

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Quote from: Abiky on August 29, 2016, 12:24:38 PM

Quote from: jackg on August 27, 2016, 07:25:26 PM

It'll use a maimum of 42W if that's what you mean. I think that there's probably something you could install for the rapsberry pi to monitor it as I think that's where it's power would come from.
Compared to the price of a Pi, it's a fairly expensive piece of equipment for you to get.

I guess you're right. It makes me wonder how long would it take me to reach ROI with this miner and if its worth the price. Better off, I think that I can do better with my own mining rig using Radeon GPUs. I've seen that ETH is the most profitable crypto to mine right now with GPUs, so I'll give it a try. Still, the Raspberry Pi would be spared for fun and learning only as I think that I cannot accomplish something greater than just that. Grin

It would take a while to ROI unless you picked up new coins and started mining them in the hope that they go from start-to-pump-to-dump and sell during the pump.
Ethereum was a really profitable coin to mine, however, I think the network difficulty has increased by quite a lot since it has been adopted.
I've also heard that the gerater the ram on the GPUs for eth mining, the more profitable it is. So you'd need like 16GB ram gpus in order to make the best profit and they may require separate batteries/renewable energy sources.

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Quote from: jackg on August 27, 2016, 07:25:26 PM

It'll use a maimum of 42W if that's what you mean. I think that there's probably something you could install for the rapsberry pi to monitor it as I think that's where it's power would come from.
Compared to the price of a Pi, it's a fairly expensive piece of equipment for you to get.

I guess you're right. It makes me wonder how long would it take me to reach ROI with this miner and if its worth the price. Better off, I think that I can do better with my own mining rig using Radeon GPUs. I've seen that ETH is the most profitable crypto to mine right now with GPUs, so I'll give it a try. Still, the Raspberry Pi would be spared for fun and learning only as I think that I cannot accomplish something greater than just that. Grin

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Quote from: Abiky on August 27, 2016, 04:46:55 PM

Quote from: Betwrong on August 25, 2016, 04:16:44 AM

First I want to say that I liked your Raspberry Pi 3 mining setup. Yeah I know it's for fun but I would be really happy to see more people have fun with things like that.

The Baikal Miner is a more serious thing and it costs $500, which is not nothing, but if you can afford it that's great. I think those Baikal Miners are pretty good for mining DASH and I also think that among all crypos DASH is one of those who probably have the bright future. At least that's a fact that the market capitalization of DASH is around 80 millions of USD, so it's definitely something.

Good luck with your projects! I will be following the progress with big interest.

Yes. The Baikal miner would be of great use to me for Dash mining, and also serves as a multi algorithm miner for other cryptocurrencies. This will be something that I will work on during the following months. I will share my progress from within this thread once I get at least the miner and some additional equipment (especially the water + salt battery) to keep you all updated.

By the way, do you or anyone know of a power meter that would be recommended in order to monitor the miner's power usage? Roll Eyes

It'll use a maimum of 42W if that's what you mean. I think that there's probably something you could install for the rapsberry pi to monitor it as I think that's where it's power would come from.
Compared to the price of a Pi, it's a fairly expensive piece of equipment for you to get.

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Quote from: Betwrong on August 25, 2016, 04:16:44 AM

First I want to say that I liked your Raspberry Pi 3 mining setup. Yeah I know it's for fun but I would be really happy to see more people have fun with things like that.

The Baikal Miner is a more serious thing and it costs $500, which is not nothing, but if you can afford it that's great. I think those Baikal Miners are pretty good for mining DASH and I also think that among all crypos DASH is one of those who probably have the bright future. At least that's a fact that the market capitalization of DASH is around 80 millions of USD, so it's definitely something.

Good luck with your projects! I will be following the progress with big interest.

Yes. The Baikal miner would be of great use to me for Dash mining, and also serves as a multi algorithm miner for other cryptocurrencies. This will be something that I will work on during the following months. I will share my progress from within this thread once I get at least the miner and some additional equipment (especially the water + salt battery) to keep you all updated.

By the way, do you or anyone know of a power meter that would be recommended in order to monitor the miner's power usage? Roll Eyes

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Quote from: Abiky on August 24, 2016, 07:28:31 PM

Quote from: calkob on August 24, 2016, 07:06:37 PM

it looks cool but what do you mean by on the go mining, surly its a novelty and cant really be in with a chance of finding anything?

Yeah. It may not find anything yet, but it can be used for fun and learning. I will continue to experiment with different power options and portability towards making it an on-the-go mining system. I am planning into getting one of those Baikal Miners as they are multi algorithm and are pretty useful for mining a variety of alt coins. The mini miner only consumes 40w so I will figure out a way to get some good power and portability at the same time in order to mine anywhere with this thing (and also teach people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies along the way)

Also, I am planning towards getting a mobile hotspot to be able to suit this task. Roll Eyes

First I want to say that I liked your Raspberry Pi 3 mining setup. Yeah I know it's for fun but I would be really happy to see more people have fun with things like that.

The Baikal Miner is a more serious thing and it costs $500, which is not nothing, but if you can afford it that's great. I think those Baikal Miners are pretty good for mining DASH and I also think that among all crypos DASH is one of those who probably have the bright future. At least that's a fact that the market capitalization of DASH is around 80 millions of USD, so it's definitely something.

Good luck with your projects! I will be following the progress with big interest.

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Quote from: calkob on August 24, 2016, 07:06:37 PM

it looks cool but what do you mean by on the go mining, surly its a novelty and cant really be in with a chance of finding anything?

Yeah. It may not find anything yet, but it can be used for fun and learning. I will continue to experiment with different power options and portability towards making it an on-the-go mining system. I am planning into getting one of those Baikal Miners as they are multi algorithm and are pretty useful for mining a variety of alt coins. The mini miner only consumes 40w so I will figure out a way to get some good power and portability at the same time in order to mine anywhere with this thing (and also teach people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies along the way)

Also, I am planning towards getting a mobile hotspot to be able to suit this task. Roll Eyes

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it looks cool but what do you mean by on the go mining, surly its a novelty and cant really be in with a chance of finding anything?

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Quote from: jackg on August 24, 2016, 06:02:59 PM

Sounds like a good idea! There are some complaints that running a raspberry pi as a node is counterproductive to the network, however, it helps with the decentralisation of the network so that must be a good thing.
I found this Not sure if it is of any use but looks interesting.

Do you know the price of those salt and water power generators?

It appears that there isn't a price defined yet for the water and salt generators as when I click Pre-book I get to fill out a form for them to notify me when it is ready for buy and ship to its destination. Just checked out the PiCheckVoltage and it seems that it may be pretty ideal for my little project. Once the water and salt generator comes out for purchase, I'll buy one and test it out with my Pi to see how it works. It will be pretty interesting to have one of these for practically anything from smartphones, tablets, and even SBC computers. Cheesy

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Quote from: Abiky on August 24, 2016, 05:48:53 PM

Quote from: jackg on August 23, 2016, 08:23:12 PM

It's probably not too good an idea to keep your battery always charging as it drains the cells of teir power.
The raspberry pi doesn't have that feature in it's operating systems as they don't come with a battery.
It's a shame there isn't an opeating system dedicated to mining either, maybe one should be built for maimising the use of this. (can you not also get a battery monitor from the pi store built in to the raspberry pi os)?

Yeah. I'm not leaving it charging by the way, but the battery has a built in monitor in which I could see current charge level. Still, it is a feature that should be implemented on future versions of Raspbian, unless there is an app already for that. In the meantime, I have no problem with this as my battery has a monitor, but when I make the switch to the water and salt powered battery then that will be an issue in which I would need to solve. Grin

By the way, the reason that I chose to run an ETC full node on it, it's because I've always been fascinated with smart contracts. It will be very interesting to learn how to make my own dapps on the blockchain with it, and thus be able to use them on either ETH or ETC platforms.

Sounds like a good idea! There are some complaints that running a raspberry pi as a node is counterproductive to the network, however, it helps with the decentralisation of the network so that must be a good thing.
I found this Not sure if it is of any use but looks interesting.

Do you know the price of those salt and water power generators?

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Quote from: jackg on August 23, 2016, 08:23:12 PM

It's probably not too good an idea to keep your battery always charging as it drains the cells of teir power.
The raspberry pi doesn't have that feature in it's operating systems as they don't come with a battery.
It's a shame there isn't an opeating system dedicated to mining either, maybe one should be built for maimising the use of this. (can you not also get a battery monitor from the pi store built in to the raspberry pi os)?

Yeah. I'm not leaving it charging by the way, but the battery has a built in monitor in which I could see current charge level. Still, it is a feature that should be implemented on future versions of Raspbian, unless there is an app already for that. In the meantime, I have no problem with this as my battery has a monitor, but when I make the switch to the water and salt powered battery then that will be an issue in which I would need to solve. Grin

By the way, the reason that I chose to run an ETC full node on it, it's because I've always been fascinated with smart contracts. It will be very interesting to learn how to make my own dapps on the blockchain with it, and thus be able to use them on either ETH or ETC platforms.

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Quote from: Abiky on August 23, 2016, 06:16:06 PM

Quote from: jackg on August 23, 2016, 07:29:22 AM

The only problem is that you're not warned as to when it's going to run out of power. You could use the battery and charger that in order for it to work but that may shorten the battery life. Maybe having two batteries (one oncharge and one in operation to maximise the battery life).

Yeah that is the only flaw. They should've made sort of like a battery power indicator from within Raspbian so that it is easier to know how much power will be left before the Pi turns off unexpectedly. I have seen linux distros on PC having this feature, but I wonder why Raspbian lacks it since it is based on Debian. Anyways, a good thing of my 10,000mAh power bank is that it has a built in power meter but not all power banks have this feature which is very disappointing.

Now, I'm trying to run geth to build up my own ETC full node. Cheesy

It's probably not too good an idea to keep your battery always chargingas it drains the cells of teir power.
The raspberry pi doesn't have that feature in it's operating systems as they don't come with a battery.
It's a shame there isn't an opeating system dedicated to mining either, maybe one should be built for maimising the use of this. (can you not also get a battery monitor from the pi store built in to the raspberry pi os)?

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Quote from: jackg on August 23, 2016, 07:29:22 AM

The only problem is that you're not warned as to when it's going to run out of power. You could use the battery and charger that in order for it to work but that may shorten the battery life. Maybe having two batteries (one oncharge and one in operation to maximise the battery life).

Yeah that is the only flaw. They should've made sort of like a battery power indicator from within Raspbian so that it is easier to know how much power will be left before the Pi turns off unexpectedly. I have seen linux distros on PC having this feature, but I wonder why Raspbian lacks it since it is based on Debian. Anyways, a good thing of my 10,000mAh power bank is that it has a built in power meter but not all power banks have this feature which is very disappointing.

Now, I'm trying to run geth to build up my own ETC full node. Cheesy

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Quote from: electronicash on August 22, 2016, 08:28:10 PM

Is there a way to make this portable set up to be also profitable?

Maybe i can also set mine, not portable though. i still have my raspberry pi b that i can use an old monitor. i was thinking of mining ETH but it requires gpu so maybe just another coin. still if it could mine, i will make use of it.

The PIs are really versitile so connecting a gou to it shouldn't be too difficult.

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Quote from: jackg on August 22, 2016, 08:15:00 PM

Hmm, what does that produce?
H₂O + NaCl → H₂ + Na₃OCl?
It must be something like that to produce a solution. They are correct that hydrogen gs can be produced and it's probably ignited to produce the charge so that is quite a good idea (Once hydrogen is ignited, it reacts with oxygen in the air and produces water)! Meaning that was is left in the container is an base solution (which is probably harmless).

Let me know if it works if you get one as it looks an interesting and good buy!

On the ubuntu idea, you can easily get into tablets and change the SD card, but it's probably not worth it!

Yes. This battery is definitely even cooler than solar ones, making it a very clean form of energy to use on smartphones, tablets and more. Since this one is available for preorder, I might buy one ahead for when it starts shipping I could get a taste of this whole new experience. Imagine the Raspberry Pi 3 + Water and Salt power bank. It will be a very convenient and portable setup! Cheesy

The only problem is that you're not warned as to when it's going to run out of power. You could use the battery and charger that in order for it to work but that may shorten the battery life. Maybe having two batteries (one oncharge and one in operation to maximise the battery life).

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