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fireice-uk / xmr-stak

Free Monero RandomX Miner and unified CryptoNight miner
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Embedded processors support (solar battery mining as a proof of concept) #2068

Open ponyatov opened 5 years ago

ponyatov commented 5 years ago

Does this miner engine (or maybe some other for monero) able to be built and run on embedded MIPS/ARM systems?

I want to play with HLK-MT7688 (MIPS/128M), Nuvoton NUC970 (ARM9/64M) and china Pi clones powered by a solar battery (just a proof of concept & for fun) or maybe human pedal generator :-).

ponyatov commented 5 years ago

These SoCs has small prices and power consumptions, so they interest me as a cheap variant for free energy toys (solar power, wind generators).

wolfgangrumpf commented 5 years ago

If you are really looking for a proof of concept device, you should be able to compile xmr-stak to run on a Raspberry Pi. Given the power management on these, as long as you can supply ~1.5 amps at 5v DC you should be able to hash - albeit slowly. See this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/7mznat/hi_is_there_a_way_to_mine_on_the_raspberry_pi/