Making and using my homemade USB Duino-Coin miner

FINAL PART. Soldering, flashing and using the USB Duino-Coin miner. Sponsored by www.pcbway.com/setinvite.aspx...
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PART 1 - How to mine cryptocurrency on the Raspberry Pi - • Raspberry Pi Crypto Mi...
PART 2 - Design your own USB Duino-Coin miner using KiCAD (Schematic) - • My Homemade USB Duino-...
PART 3 - Design your own USB Duino-Coin miner using KiCAD (PCB) - • My Homemade USB Duino-...
PART 4 - Build and use - This video
0:00 - Intro
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0:24 - Soldering the Miners
6:43 - Installing Arduino IDE
7:19 - Download the Duino-Coin Code
8:33 - Flashing the Miners
9:45 - Mining
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[@hyzenthlay7151]

Another great video!! I would have a couple of questions if you wished to address them in a follow up video you may have planned. What works out better? The arduino or directly on the RPi? I'm wondering about how much you mine compared to the power used. I assume with the arduino option in the Pi, the latter stays a lot cooler as it's just hosting rather than doing all the work. I have a 2B and a 3B, and wondering if it's better to have this arduino option in the 2B (so as to give it more life again), or directly on the 3B. Also, as you use more than 1 at a time in the same RPi, is it worth it taking into account the whole "penalty for larger setups" thing. I mean, PCBWay minimum order is 5 boards, so if I made 2 and used them on the 2B, does it actually "do anything"?
Anyway, thanks for another great video, I wasn't really interested in crypto, but I did have some curiosity, and having a couple of Pi's to choose from in a drawer collecting dust, I might as well try it out.

[@iNimbleSloth]

You can use more than one USB miner on the RPi. You can have up to 50 devices mining on a single Duino Coin account BUT you will get banned for mining with multiple accounts to get around the 50 limit. Duino Coin is all about learning not making money. IMO, you'll never make money with this though due to the power to run the miner vs the tiny value per coin. My shed is off-grid and powered by solar, so I did have a play with mining on an ESP8226 for a short while.
I had a go at designing these USB miners as I wanted to gain more experience in KiCAD and at the same time learn more about the Arduino microcontroller and serial connection to a computer. From my experience with Duino Coin, that's what it's all about, discovery and the journey that is learning.

[@justasktony]

So - Great Videos. I had boards made and have finished soldering them. I used exactly the same components as you, followed the diagrams and even tested that I installed all of them correctly. But, dang it the computer is not recognizing the USB! I looked at all of the parts and I see that the tants are positive marked and with the USB on the right facing left. On the back usb on right facing right. the shot is neg and facing left with usb on the right. That is following the diagram and from what I can tell from the videos what you did. can you think of a way I can get the thing to show up as a usb so I can program the chip?

[@iNimbleSloth]

Firstly you should see a serial com port on your computer when the board is attached. My windows 11 machine and Raspberry pi didn’t require any driver, not sure about other OS. If you don’t see a com port, then the issue could be with the ATmega. Does the ATmega microcontroller have the Arduino boot loaded on it already? If not, search TH-cam for how to flash Arduino boot loader. The header on the PCB can be used for this process.
Is your ATmega surface mount or through-hole? If through hole, try on from a working Arduino as it will already have the boot loader on it.

[@justasktony]

@@iNimbleSloth thanks, I will take the time and check all the traces again. I did through-hole and even used a chip that was already mining to try. I only made 5 so far so I will stop and try to figure why the win11 is not recognizing it. Looks like I am back to the breadboard.

[@mikrotech3103]

How much can we possibly made from it if we use 200 boards of arduino nano?
Does duino coin itself have any future

[@iNimbleSloth]

I approached this for a learning exercise regarding the hard and software, you'd need to check out the Duino Coin community on Discord for that kind of info.

[@podex6354]

Also the maximum cap of miner you start with is only 50. If you want more cap you can Just pay around 100.000 duco i think (+- 6$) and dont forget about kolka efeciency drop, every worker Will have -4% efeciency from the previus worker, you can also pay to reduce the kolka efeciency drop by paying around 5.000 to 10.000 duco 0.5$ to 1#
Note: all the price i Write is current primer of duco, it can be lower or higher in the future

[@animatoredits7237]

@@podex6354 you mine duino coin