We are going to turn a Jalapeno into a Jupiter. Or bust. Probably bust. But maybe not!
Being one of those people who spent $169 for a Jalapeno in January and got his... money's worth, I've been thinking of ways to keep it relevant as difficulty has been tottering up.
I'm going to start this thread to track what I have been doing, what's worked so far, and where we can go with this. So far I have managed to boost my poor little Jally from 4.5gh barely (it had crappy chips) to 7.3gh, then 12, then 16, and for the moment, 20. I will talk about hardware hacks I am doing, software hacks from this forum, and thoughts on just how big I can make this poor little bastard of a device.
First, a word of serious thanks to the following people:
Butterfly Labs: For releasing the source code to the little singles and also releasing the schematics.
CK: Who compiled an elf file that allowed my POS jally to go to 7.3gh which is as much as I could get out of it. He showed me the way.
Danattacker, who had the sheer balls to be the first to put 2 chips on his JP and showed that it was possible
inabyrdcage, the seller on Ebay who is actually selling BFL chips in single quantities unlike BFL. The auction number is 151168046486 over here http://www.ebay.com/itm/151168046486. My previous vendor ran out of chips, and this gentleman does free shipping, so I ordered two more from this seller. So far looks good!
My uncle, who inspired me to fix watches which gives me the fine tools to pull shit like this off.
Whoever runs this BBS/Forum, it's been a great place to read, chat, and think.
The parent thread for all this is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236875.500, I posted a lot there but want to put the summary instructions and my future travails on it's own thread (and because I am kind of bogarting that thread because it's more software hacking and I am doing some serious hardware fuckery here)
Anyway, she's now running at 20gh, I'll post more later this afternoon, but first a few pictures of it running. You can watch my eligus page (and toss me some bitcoin bits if you like all this/want me to go MOAR!!!) at the following address:
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/15eT8iME5DKMxHpQGEKCJmYDiEBWjyg979
Check this project:
