Solar Powered Crypto Miner Using A Raspberry Pi
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2021
- In this video, we're going to be building a solar-powered cryptocurrency miner using a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Can we make a profit if we're getting the electricity for free? We're going to try out mining Monero using our Raspberry Pi and see how well the Pi does and how profitable it is.
Here's my full written guide to building the miner - www.the-diy-life.com/solar-po...
Purchase Links (Amazon Affiliate)
Raspberry Pi Zero W - amzn.to/3onOFKS
32 GB SD Card - amzn.to/33OdK8x
5W Solar Panel - amzn.to/3waF7pi
18650 Lithium-Ion Battery - amzn.to/3ooJudG
18650 Battery Holder - amzn.to/2Rt0nrJ
18650 Battery Holder I've Used (Not Amazon) - www.banggood.com/custlink/GDD...
DF Robot 5V Charge Controller - bit.ly/3ftvtY2
USB Micro Cable - amzn.to/3eUQRq5
GoPro Suction Cup Mount - amzn.to/2RVUza1
Soldering Iron used - amzn.to/3aZxN81
Note: The above parts are affiliate links. By purchasing products through the above links, you’ll be supporting this channel, with no additional cost to you.
If you've got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you'd like to see, let me know in the comments section. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
![[TH] Esports World Cup : Knockout Stage Day 1](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ES-vr-FarFg/mqdefault.jpg)
"Can we make a profit if we're getting the electricity for free? "
sure, $1 in 100 years.
$1 in one week with duino coin 😉
😅
@@vaneay #duino as in #Arduino?
@@Crypt0Crossf1re yes
@@vaneay nice! I just looked it up!
this man is now unstoppable. Watch him set up 500 of these.
He said 220 years to be able to recoup the price. That's for a single pi. Do 500 pi's and a strong wifi signal, and your looking at 4.4 years
@@jonnupe1645 the years wouldent change because you multiply the years by the amount of pi you have then devide it by the amount of pi and it will be the same number because each pi cost money
And get bankrupt from purchasing the parts
its called an exercise in futility
@@gregh7457 I think there's a pill for that
This has lots of great info for setting up any kind of Pi needs in a remote area.
An unique way to think abt the mining !
What a creative mind u got sir 👌👌👌
It's already being done with the Raspberry Pi, Rev B (from a long time ago, so much lesser specs) on Timekoin currency. Glad the idea keeps coming up though from time to time. Nice video!
Hell yes! I made the same thing with solar powerbank :)
Kid: please buy me a iPhone
Grandpa: Hmm,not iPhone.. But I can buy a third party sim ejector pin with the money I got from mining from your age
Hahaha sounds about right
Super interesting!!! Thanks for the video!!
It is a cool video for how to solar power a Raspberry Pinfor other purposes.
I enjoyed watching this :)
woah this had a lot of useful information contained in it for solar pi projects!
and checking out your channel you make some pretty neat things!
Thanks for the support and great feedback!
Ohhh I got a good laugh out of this. Even considering that I have every part required for this sitting around, it's not even worth it hahahaha.
Cant wait to see the cluster pi see how much that would produce. great video
Thank you. I'll hopefully get this tested in the next week or two.
@@AgoraSage so about the same price/chance of me getting the pis setup as obtaining an rtx graphics card then 🤣
This is soo cool.....Fav channel ever...
Thanks for the support!
This video is what I link when people think Chia is "green"
Great video, thanks! 'd love to see you build a solar rig for a pi 4 and a big spinning USB hard drive for sia hard drive mining which is vastly more energy efficient and more profitable currently.
Awesome tinkering man
im gonna try this out as a learning experience project. i live in the tropics, we get sunshine almost 365 days a year
It's a great learning project to try!
Awesome work!
Thank you!
Thanks... very Useful info...
I do the same with a Pi4/8Gb on a 100W panel with a 25ah battery i had no other use for anymore. I mine Monero it works greate so far but the charge controller will shut it down after 9h (winter sucks) i hope in summer it gets better
Really nice experiment and decent analysis overall. Would certainly like to see more of that out there.
Thank you!
1:40 you can do all that in the menue of the rpi-imager. Just press CTRL + SHIFT + X and put in your wifi crednetiles. You can even keep the data stored so you dont have to do it everytime.
Thanks for the tip!
I always though about this!!! I have in mine to do it!!! And I never found any video or post about solar mining raspberrys... Waiting for the closter!!
I just use one of my old phone and a solar power bank.
great video. now I want to see a 2-battery pi that can run on solar throughout the night!
I'm going to be trying a similar project with a full size Pi soon.
Wow This is interesting Man well made 👍
Thank you!
bro you are deserver my subscribe!!!
Great Solar Powered
Thanks
THIS IS ....i cant describe it...
its a great idea
Signa is a truly eco-friendly and decentralized coin!!!
Sweet!
I thought about doing this 12 hours ago and here is a video on it done already i was going to use the pi to run a usb bitcoin miner but the usb miner uses 2 watts alone
It would be nice to see a similar setup on a FPGA.
Awesome video.Whether it is feasible to mine crypto currency or no,that's a different question.However,the video is informative and fantastic.Keep it up.
Thank you!
Nice.
That's cool...
Great video! I will reuse the info on solar panel charging for one of my projects. Do you plan ro run the cluster on solar? How much energy it draws and what panels/controlers/batteries would you use? Thanks!
Thanks Miguel. No, I'm not planning on running the cluster on solar as it uses around 60-100W which results in quite a big solar panel and battery bank for a temporary project (given that it'll probably also not make much money).
Be cool to set these up for world community grid.
That plus buy a homless shelter for the homeless
How would you go about building this community?
I'm interested to see the real project for this. Perhaps a WiFi basestation for a an off grid wireless sensor network.
A rock pi can make $0.20 a day or so on Verus coin. You can even use a cell phones.
If only i lived in a sunny country🤣. I don't think i could ever offset the flight costs and 1 year hotel bills in California just to try this out😂😂
Wow, I have a similar setup however I have 200TH on sha-256 running 100% off of my 46 solar panels and 20kw battery array
That sounds like an awesome setup!
Interesting :)
What about a solar powered storj node. I'm tempted to think your return would be a lot sooner. I'm thinking of adding to my nodes with this sort of set up
I think a more practical use for this device would be setting up a 24 hour pirate radio station. Only one or two small modifications would make it possible!
Thanks for the suggestion Donald, I'll have a look at this.
i have a larger solar panel, i need to try this
Do you mean an actual radio broadcast station or an online streaming server? I've been looking for a way to connect the Pi to an online Shoutcast server so it can stream 24/7.
@@talon12020 I had meant an extreme short range broadcast station, or pirate radio station. Something to load up with a bunch of music, stick it in the sun, and have it play it in random order, 24/7.
There are a ton of examples out there already, I've just never seen one that keeps itself powered or looks this sweet.
nice
Hey Michael, nice to meet you. Excelent Project concept , how is going the progress ? Regards!
Great video Michael 👍🏻 Unfortunately crypto mining isn't very profitable on the Pi...😥
there does exist usb mining hardware (such as the antminer u1), but then one would probably need a bigger solar panel/battery
try magi coin
this is genius...
What about using those small Nvidia Jetson nano boards ? They have a powerful-ish gpu so, would those things make sense to use for mining ?
Great Video, we can make solar power computer that is good but for mining it is useless
Can't wait for the pi shortage. A pi will only cost $1000.
That's super WILD!!! Over 200 years!!! #Wwwowzaa! #Haa!
i recognize that sd card reader, it came with my ender 3
That’s the one, haha
very nice idea. congratulation. question: is the rpi running wthout interruption when the power source switches from the solar panel to the battery or back to the solar panel?
The controller doesn't switch between the solar panel and battery pack. The Pi is always powered from the battery pack and the charge controller then charges the battery as it is depleted.
I would be interested in seeing the same done with a pi 4 8gb model, I genuinely wonder how that model will perform.
I’ll try run this on my Pi 4b cluster, starting with a single node and then try all 8 nodes.
@@MichaelKlements what soldering iron is that you are using in this video?
try overclocking it to see what hash rate it has
Instead of creating the ssh and wpa config files yourself you can do it automatically via the Raspberry Pi imager!
Thank you. I didn't know that, I will look into now great tip.
@@DiyintheGhetto You‘re welcome! There‘s a combination of keys you need to press to access the feature but I don‘t remember which, I‘m sorry!
@@frage-zeichen Strg + Shift + X
how about the pi pico as some sort of asic miner..
Nice work....what is the red pcb setting in the back of the battery holder?
It’s a USB charging circuit. It’s not needed in conjunction with the solar charge controller.
you built this 5 years earlier you wouldn't have said that lol.
Just a quick heads-up, the RPi Imager has built in functionality to set up SSH and WiFi configurations while flashing the image.
These options were only added to Imager in the 2021 update, I think from v1.6 onwards.
What's that?
oh that's just my free money generator!
Chia mining would be more profitable, but you need an external ssd(enegrgy efficient) or much bigger sd card.
I’ll have a look at this thanks, the ssd route is probably better!
is it possible to run the prizm crypto-coin node by a similar method to make it completely autonomous?
One can reduce the Pi Zero W's power consumption by shutting down HMDMI, USB ports and wifi.
Disable HDMI: /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o
Disable USB: echo 0x0 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/20980000.usb/buspower
Disable Wifi: ifdown wlan0 (or whatever the interface is called).
Thanks for the tips, I'll play around with these and see what savings can be made.
can you do a video on driving a replacement phone screen with an rpi 4 ?
My rassberry pi has a solid red light and won’t boot any suggestions on how to fix it.
Just thinking if the new RasPi Zero 2W will lessen the ROI for this project.
what about using it for filecoin minning can you add lots of ssd to the pi
nice video but i have an important question for you.....how are u cooling it as cpu heats up also there id suns heat.so i dont think heat sinks any good???
The CPU is on the shaded side of the panel and is not covered, so gets natural airflow over it. I haven't noticed any overheating issues on it.
Projects like this are fun and for enthusiasts only. Don't count on making living out of it. Building a miner like that will probably cost more then the miner will be able to earn back. I have seen videos where people claim they made money on micro computer mining, but that is just not true. Linus Tech tips, tested miners like that in big clusters, so YOU don't have to. The most fun to watch was a HDD cluster drive space miner. That monster made noise, and was power hungry like 1000ccm motorcycle and the amount of crypto it earned was worth a laugh. The HDD monster would cost a fortune to build for any regular user, and it only made 90 dollars worth of crypto, but at the same time added much more to the power bill, making it a total failure. It literally lost money instead of earning them.
Hello! do you think its possible to made the same but for raspberry 4?
Shame Helium no longer let you use a Raspberry Pi, that can make tens or hundreds of dollars a day. Someone else needs to do something similar with open hardware requirements.
You could scale this up with bigger panels with microinverters to power GPU farms.
It seems easier to just use one of the dedicated hardware modules for this exact purpose, if you're concerned about getting a better scaling of performance. No RPi is built for this, or will perform best in no aspect.
@@master74200 What hardware is dedicated for solar mining?
@@zackthompson2505 You'd need a bunch of batteries and a solar farm to power that, which isn't really environmental friendly. It would be much better to simply purchase your power from a green source, such as nuclear power.
Amazing idea. Love it. I have a mini pc running a Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz powered via solar and battery, but can't get it to mine - any suggestions of software or solution? I run windows 10 on there
There are a couple of mining options for Windows 10, try looking at CGMiner or EasyMiner
@@MichaelKlements thank you. I'll have a play around. I tried nicehash and it looked like it was mining, but after several days the balance. I will try these
Waiting for the update in 200+ years to see how it went :)
Would this be potentially profitable in proof of stake?
What would you need to connect multiple batteries? A multi battery holder or multiple single battery holders and some other parts? I'm a total novice.
You could use either a parallel battery holder or connect individual battery holders in parallel (connect all positives together and all negatives together).
yeaaaa clusteeer
Is there any posible way to Extend the internet the Areas with mountendns or Sahara maybe?
I’ve never tried this but it might be possible
Anyone try this with a RPi Zero 2W and if so, does it give a better hash rate?
Can you be able to access the clock of the pi zero and double the speed by over clocking?
You can overclock a Pi a little, but not double. You're limited by the circuit design and how much power can actually get to the CPU.
Would Raspberry PI 4 make a difference? You will probably not be able to power it just from solar power but that's secondary anyway...
Yes you'd get an increase in performance from a Pi 4, but the increase in performance along with the increase in hardware cost (you'll also need a larger solar panel, controller and battery) means that it's also not going to be profitable.
I heard that CPU mining is 💩 in comparasion whit GPU mining.
It is. I get 30MH/s with my gpu, which is pretty standard. I get
A pi3b (or pi3bplus) version (requiring a bigger panel and battery) would be cool so that the hashing is more useful (blake2b) such as for IPFS and self-hosted XMPP (like Movim), and it could run all that and also Blender game engine (forked) or that modern "interactive mode" so that _(even though its graphics would look about as good as a gamecube)_ people could dip in and out like it is Second-life (multiplayer persistent server).
I'm looking at doing a similar setup for a 4B, thanks for the suggestions on applications to try.
@@MichaelKlements Ugh, My fault. I should have added a preliminary moan about the pi4. Well yes of course, I reckon the pi4 has some useful features and I reckon you will do a nifty job (because this video you made is good)... however, considering many of us just don't want to use the pi4, could you mention the pi3b too when you make your video? So many people still use the pi3b(plus). Cheers. :)
I’ll see if I can find one online, I only got into Raspberry Pis after the 4b was out, so I don’t have any of the previous versions to experiment on. That’s why I only use 4b’s in my videos.
@@MichaelKlements You can get a pi3b (or pi3bplus) cheap nowadays. They have protection rings (for basic VM stuff) as do the pi4, but generally use less power (than the pi4) even though they lack the passthrough GPU and fancy features. The full 1GB RAM is a must. They're like the T72 tank, cut down to have only one or two main features you desire as with the T72 having the armour at the front, and they work good in large numbers just like the tanks.
The Explaining-Computers channel did a cool video recently showing a chunky Lead battery (and Lithium too) used on a Pi3b vs a Pizerow vs a Pi4. If you have not yet seen it, you would probably find it very handy for this solar stuff. A Pizero ran for a week _(and yes, that is true even if it had been thrashing the CPU and GPU playing a SuperTuxKart Server)._
Even though you probably won't submerge a pi3b in oil (vegetable or mineral), the various YT videos of people doing that (especially with a propeller flowing the oil) show good data on the heat it makes _(and they still work after washing and drying out thoroughly)._
As an side the Pi3A 512MB RAM is too low and is best suited for things like the PiStorm IMO. I will concede though that, at least it has protection rings _(but man that would be a skimpy VM on merely half a Gig)._
What battery are you using
1:55 did you get that sd card reader from creality?
Yes, I've got a couple laying around now.
220 years? is that accounting for inflation? ...
that's likely a no. you'll never recoup the cost. unless you hold and the coin price shoots up.
if you use a Orange Pi Zero LTS would that give you a better hash rate :P
The idea is amazing I think, even if you can't get the cost back fast or at all it's still something that can run essentially free and say you work during the day your not using your wifi anyhow so why not put it to work aswel
Genius !! Howzit China!!
What’s the brand of the soldering iron?
It's called a TS100 - amzn.to/3aZxN81
What if you added a Gekko USB Sha 256 miner to it? Like a CompacF or Newpac
That'll obviously improve the hash rate but the added equipment cost for the miner and increase in solar panel and battery size would negate any improvements in earnings.
Are there any cryptos that would get the most bang for your buck out of using a Pi? Obviously BTC is out of the question but what about being an ADA validator or some other altcoin?
The trouble is that Raspberry Pis are just not particularly powerful. As long as PC's and GPUs are significantly more powerful, its not going to be feasible to mine on a Pi. The only way you'd really make any money is if you got in early on an altcoin and it happened to do well.
Boleh tuh tampa biaya listrik rumahan
1 dolar seminggu ya om ?? kapan balik modalnya ...
Duino coin would be a good option instead of Monero.
i use mine duino coin on my raspberrypi`s and other single board computers
buuuuuuuurn it on the sd-card!