Most of the miners out there are based on Linux, whether raspberry PI, BeagleBone or other form(s) of controllers.
Some of these are fast, decent performing boards, while others (Raspberry PI as an example) are pretty slow overall.
You could in theory disconnect the hashing boards inside the units and turn them into web-servers, cloud servers, storage servers,
mysql servers etc. I have already done this with broken cointerra boxes I have by extracting the Beaglebone boards and installing different
linux versions on them. They are great for small low traffic DNS servers DHCP servers and web servers for low traffic (perhaps home media center?) servers.
I even have a wordpress site running on one just for shits and giggles.
So what you are doing there is using the controller... fair enough... but those asics are still rendered useless.. right?
) so my solution was to ship it to different areas depending on the weather... But it isn't efficient at all. A water warming solution would be much more efficient, the only problem I see is that these miners use the same amount of power all the time, the warm water is needed in precise moments. So in order to do it one would need to 1) use a little warm water (no bath only shower for instance) 2) have a huge water heater tank.
