tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82314449451279673852024-03-14T13:36:19.105+01:00Asteria Networks BlogMake it so.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-39714360509315143962014-08-12T21:25:00.002+02:002014-08-12T21:25:41.077+02:00Posting resumesIts been while since last post!
Deleting a few old ones, and some new ones coming up.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-13476566431215238832014-03-19T17:00:00.002+01:002014-08-12T21:27:06.408+02:00New LTC commodity exchange opens, cloud LTC hashing just got serious!Many crypto fans has been mining at <a href="https://cex.io/r/0/megaminer777/0/">cex.io</a> and <a href="http://scrypt.cc/?ref=baan3">scrypt.cc</a>, but now comes the best of each of them wrapped into one: LTC cloud mining with a eerily familiar interface.<br />
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As LTC was just added to huobi while cex.io just got a pure LTC mining pool after a week of 1.25x and 2x bonus awards as well, <strike> and with LTC clound hashing at <a href="https://markets.cx/affiliates/promote/?u=5329a13b05af48c92f8b518c">markets.cx</a>, LTC is gaining momentum.<br />
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All those three links are referral links, btw, so if you sign up, I get some trading bonuses from the services. (does not cost you). You can then refer users for personal bonus.<br />
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I worked out that selling my khash at scrypt.cc gave me BTC 0.64 and then I exchanged LTC 22.3 at <a href="https://www.cryptsy.com/users/register?refid=107373">cryptsy</a> and then sent that to markets.cx deposits. I went from 440 khash on scrypt.cc to 1012 khash on markets.cx :) That is rather sweet.<br /></strike>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-12278310739235799602014-03-10T00:05:00.000+01:002014-03-11T11:37:53.148+01:00Scrypt.cc Profit AnalysisWhat is Scrypt.cc ? In the same way that you can rent SHA256-based ASIC mining power at<a href="https://cex.io/r/0/megaminer777/0/"> cex.io</a>, you can rent scrypt-based computers at a per-Kh/s rate. This site mines various Altcoins and exchanges them for BTC for you. You can then withdraw that BTC at any time.<br />
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This is just a preliminary analysis of the potential income on Scrypt.cc so far. I've been renting hash power there for about a month now, and it looks fairly good.<br />
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It is a fairly new website, and it is under development. They plan to add more control to the users, for example to choose which types of coins to mine.<br />
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When I joined, the stock price was B0.00144, but when sold out, prices rose to the B0.00155 range.<br />
The income varies a lot. You get mining rewards every 10 minutes, like this:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8oZemF_ipKyrOGFgd3eoRmzNyGn4yAshLsuAUe3i4MzMyZR4oFhw7dq3jqPEQDb9EkCLy3n5Zmr4zqqytZ_OLYhfmpY33ledJBRJkcE0pKz_ytZLYpZfu3WIebHPb0UfCWdoYJENPSfVe/s1600/scryptcc3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8oZemF_ipKyrOGFgd3eoRmzNyGn4yAshLsuAUe3i4MzMyZR4oFhw7dq3jqPEQDb9EkCLy3n5Zmr4zqqytZ_OLYhfmpY33ledJBRJkcE0pKz_ytZLYpZfu3WIebHPb0UfCWdoYJENPSfVe/s1600/scryptcc3.png" height="167" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mining rewards are paid every 10 minutes. For me, at my speed, it varies between 0.0000100 and 0.0000300.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is just the raw data logged for 5 days</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The BTC income on that list can vary up to 200%, so I spent a week logging the estimated income from the Scrypt.cc dashboard. </span><div>
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The 'Conclusion so far' column shows my own monthly estimate, while the average Scrypt.cc estimate is under the 'Scryot.cc Profits Average' column. As you can see, we differ by just B0.001.</div>
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The reason I am interested in renting is because summer is coming, and I cannot justify keeping 1000 watts running just for mining. That is only worth it during winter. Want to sign up at <a href="http://scrypt.cc/?ref=baan3">Scrypt.cc</a> ? Just click that banner. It's a referral banner that will get me a little extra bonus. And so will you if you pass on you own referral link. The site is a bit unclear as to where the bonus comes from; some people thought it came from the referee's own money <b>but the devs themselves clarifed this in a chat with me</b>. The bonus comes from the pool itself ! So don't worry!</div>
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<a href="http://scrypt.cc/?ref=baan3" target="_blank" title="Scrypt.CC | Scrypt Cloud Mining"><img border="0" src="http://scrypt.cc/banners.php?b=1&u=4GxgkhVmQfVWxe2ccdSNt6qStY3qdkbM" height="60" width="410" /></a>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-57621039883716962872014-03-09T17:18:00.001+01:002014-03-10T01:11:09.610+01:00Trying to rent out my Antminers! <a href="http://bitcoinminingmarket.com/">bitcoinminingmarket</a> is a leasing site where you can rent out your mining gear, like betarigs and leaserigs.<br />
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Here is my humble rig for rent:: <a href="http://bitcoinminingmarket.com/?job=4ghs#.UxyUHJAQKJk.blogger">Mining speed 4GH/s 24h rental on stable EU server</a><br />
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The site is snappy and responsive and is easy to use. I've had no luck so far, but I've had the account for under 24 hours.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-89301022213941043992014-02-23T14:13:00.004+01:002014-02-23T14:13:57.932+01:00CGminer for scrypt mining tutorialFirst off, the original CGminer for GPU is dead. All 3.8 and newer builds are made for ASICs only. Luckily, it has been forked, and scrypt-mining on GPU has been kept. Get kalroth's CGminer fork at <a href="http://k-dev.net/cgminer/">http://k-dev.net/cgminer/</a>. Also have a look at this thread at <a href="http://www.overclock.net/t/1461916/tutorial-ultimate-guide-to-tweaking-amd-cgminer-3-7-2-kalroth-edition-sgminer-instructions-included-aswell-get-the-most-hash-out-of-your-gpu">overclock.net</a>.<br />
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Configuring CGminer is quite complicated (it is JSON formatted), but my basic one goes like:<br />
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{<br />"pools" : [<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>{<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"quota" : "20;stratum+tcp://server1:3333",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"user" : "x.x",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"pass" : "x"<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>},<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>{<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"quota" : "50;stratum+tcp://server2:3333",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"user" : "x.x",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"pass" : "x"<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>},<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>{<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"url" : "stratum+tcp://server3:3333,<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"user" : "x.x",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"pass" : "x"<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>},<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>{<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://server4:3333",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"user" : "x.x",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"pass" : "x"<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>},<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>{<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"quota" : "20;stratum+tcp://server5:3333",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"user" : "x.x",<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"pass" : "x"<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>}<br />],<br />"failover-only" : true,<br />"load-balance" : true,<br />"scrypt" : true,<br />"kernel" : "scrypt",<br />"intensity" : "15,13",<br />"thread-concurrency" : "4476,3198",<br />"gpu-threads" : "1",<br />"gpu-platform" : "1"<br />}</blockquote>
This config turns on the normal scrypt module, as you can see.<br />
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Also it enables failover and load balancing. As you can see, server 1,2,4,5 shares their quota amd server 3 is only a fail-over, but it will still failover to any alive pool as long as a server with quote demand is dead.<br />
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20+50+10+20 = 100 %.<br />
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<i>Notice the "quota" parameter replacing the usual "url" parameter, and that is add a comma separator after the quota specified before the url!</i><br />
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<b>Intensity: </b>Is just how much steam the cards can handle. If you see in the CGminer console that you are getting HW errors, lower the intensity. 15 is a bit high, but I get no errors. 13 is more common, but still gives me a HW error of 1 per day or so. That is not good, so I should lower intensity to 12 and see how it goes.<br />
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<i>Note the comma-separation on the parameters that supports it. Generally PCIe slot 0 is the first, PCIe slot 2 is the second, etc!</i><br />
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<b>Thread concurrency:</b> Is calculated by taking number of GPU shaders and multiplying by 4 (for the 6xxx and 7xxx series, other models has other optimal calculations.) and remove 4.<br />
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<b>GPU Platform: </b>Normally, the platform available on PCIe slot 0 becomes gpu-platform 0. That means if you have an Nvidia card in slot 0 like me, and 2 AMD cards on slot 1 and 2, it becomes platform 1. So platform 1, card 0 and 1 is my active cards in CG miner. cudaminer would then need the opposite config, pretty much.<br />
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Starting up CGminer from a batch file:<br />
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@echo on<br />
ECHO "cgminer miner startup"<br />
ECHO.<br />
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100<br />
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1<br />
cgminer.exe --config=cgminer.conf<br />
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setx works on Windows, as some people dispute. Look at the 'succeeded' return-message in the console.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-12411729470432986202014-02-15T09:56:00.000+01:002014-02-23T13:50:12.690+01:00PandaCoin launch at Valentines day 2014<span style="color: red;">WARNING: SCAMCOIN</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">ALSO APPLIES TO STACKCOIN!</span><br />
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So for once, I got in on an Altcoin at launch date.<br />
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PandaCoin is a Vertcoin variant, and must be mined using the special edititons of CGMiner.<br />
Vertcoins require a whopping 2GB on CudaMiner.<br />
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At diff 40, I pointed my miners at the newest pools and overnight I mined something like 40K PandaCoins.<br />
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Remember to use Vertminers!<br />
Vertcoins will halve your usual Scrypt rate, wich again is half your SHA256 rate.<br />
So your 1 MH/s rig does 250 Khash on a VTC algorithm. Dont be alarmed if you are not used to these numbers. It's normal.<br />
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Vert coins (VTC) are a newer type of coin that is designed to kill off any ASIC chips made for it every 6 months. And the memory requirements makes it nearly impossible to manufacture. So I believe that this coin is here to stay. It is Doge 2.0 they say, let hope so! I do keep some Doge miners on as well :)<br />
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TMB and Nitro's networks was DDOS'ed several times and left my failovers to regular VTC.<br />
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Some alternative PandaCoin pools:<br />
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<a href="http://panda.miningwith.us/">panda.miningwith.us</a><br />
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This list will be updated as whenever I add more failovers to my setup.<br />
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Update:<br />
Ofcourse, the mining pool i chose was a small one that grew quite a bit in the beginning, but we were plagued by bad luck and we only found 3 or 4 blocks. My biggest share was 59K PandaCoin.<br />
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I mined just short of 180k, which is not too shabby. I, for one, hope Panda is the new scrypt-n coin :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-13875819015849315382014-02-01T21:04:00.000+01:002014-02-15T17:40:45.785+01:00Simple calculation for two popular cloud miners<h2>
bit-miner.com and cex.io</h2>
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<b>bit-miner.com:</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">ASSET #1</span></h4>
6x180GH/s = 1080 Gh/s<br />
Number of shares = 10000<br />
1080/10000=0.108, this is the Gh/s per share.<br />
0.108x=1 => 1/0.108 = 9.25 shares per Gh/s<br />
Asset #1 has a price of 5-7, depending on the time. That means on average $55.5 per Gh/s<br />
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ASSET #12<br />
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3000 GH/s<br />
Number of shares = 30000<br />
3000/30000=0.1, this is the Gh/s per share.<br />
0.1x=1 => 1/0.1 = 10 shares per Gh/s<br />
Asset #12 has a price of 1.5-2, depending on the time. That means on average $17.5 per Gh/s. That is a sweet deal now, but remember that it doesn't start until May!<br />
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CEX.IO:</h3>
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BTC 0.35 per GH/s = $28.25 per GH/s</div>
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But this is mining at current difficulty! So even if Bit-Miner.com's Gh/s is about $10 more expensive not, you should recover that by mining at current block difficulty.</div>
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At the moment, CEX,.io is the best place for GH/s trading right now.</div>
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<a href="https://cex.io/r/1/megaminer777/0/" target="_blank">Here is some referall links for me</a>, if you sign up with my reference, I get a transaction percentage bonus.</div>
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If you feel this article helped you, please consider signing up at cex.io</div>
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Here you also co-mine IXC, NMC and DVC.<br />
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<b>Reserving the right to miscalculations.</b><br />
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<b>ICX and DVC coins can be traded at <a href="https://vircurex.com/register?referral_id=475-72647" target="_blank">Vircurex </a>and <a href="https://www.cryptsy.com/users/register?refid=107373" target="_blank">Cryptsy</a>.</b><br />
<b>NMC can buy GH/s at CEX.io</b></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-72422226906717499722014-01-29T01:00:00.000+01:002014-02-01T20:45:41.582+01:00Bitcoin mining and profits in the post-homemining era<a href="https://cex.io/r/0/megaminer777/0/" target="_blank" title="CEX.io - Bitcoin Commodity Exchange"><img border="0" src="http://cex.io/informer/megaminer777/7d72592b952333123df4324ad57f0b7f/" height="35" width="500" /></a><br />
Bitcoin mining at home is dead. It went completely dead around summer 2013. The rise of ASIC mining has left everyone in the dust.<br />
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Luckily there are alternavtive digital coins, so called 'altcoins', and these are mined using traditional GPU rigs and doesn't use 'SHA256' hashing like Bitcoin and it's direct siblings. They use an hashing algorithm called 'scrypt' that is somewhat resistant to ASIC mining.<br />
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Depending on the exchange rates and hashing power that goes into the various altcoin mining, it is more profitable to mine certain altcoins at certain times.<br />
Check out <a href="http://dustcoin.com/">dustcoin.com</a> for an overview of the profitability of some alt coins.<br />
At the moment, Dogecoin seems to be on the rise, and is over 2.5 times more profitable to mine than LTC. Want to Dogetip me ? Go right ahead, my crypto coin tips adresses are to the right clolumn,<br />
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If you are good at jumping pools, you can still scoop 0.01-0.02 BTC each day with about 1Mh/s of equipment.<br />
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Power is expensive, but right now in the winter, I would still need 2000-3000 watts to keep my apartment warm. Now I am heating my place with about 2000 watts of GPU and CPU mining. So in that sense, during winter, mining is pure profit. Keeps the place warm and makes me money too.<br />
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There are also a coin called PrimeCoin (aka XPM) that are mined only by CPU power. You can mine with a <a href="http://beeeeer.org/" target="_blank">pool </a>or solo mine with a highly optimized wallet.<br />
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You can exchange certain coins for other coins on exchanges like <a href="https://www.cryptsy.com/users/register?refid=107373" target="_blank">Cryptsy </a>and even buy cloud mining at places like <a href="https://cex.io/r/1/megaminer777/0/" target="_blank">CEX</a>. If you sign up to those two places and start trading from these links right here, I get a referral bonus too :)<br />
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Other good coin exchanges are <a href="https://btc-e.com/" target="_blank">BTC-e</a>, <a href="https://vircurex.com/main/index" target="_blank">Vircurex</a><br />
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AMD cards are still king of coin mining, but the newer CUDA miners can squeeze a lot more out of Nvidia cards today. My GTX 660 used to mine at 90 k/hs, with the <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0" target="_blank">new miner</a> out now, it spiked to 180. I get about 0.15 BTC and 0.010 XPM daily. This money I invest in cloud mining for the long term.<br />
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<b>cgminer flags (GUI-miner scrypt edition)</b><br />
All at intensity <strike>17</strike>. 16 Adjust after your liking. Intensity 18 will give me about 10-20% invalid shares. 17 about 5-10. 16 seems to approach around 1-2%.<br />
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Thread concurrency should be you memory divided by 32kb.<br />
--shaders: specify the number of shaders in your unit. (notice two --)<br />
-w flag: set worksize. usually 256 seems to work best on all cards.<br />
-v flag: set to 1 to use GPU vectors for speed boost.<br />
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<b>CUDA miner flags:</b><br />
-H flag: Set to 1 to borrow some CPU for 10% mining boost.<br />
-C flag: set to 1 to use texture cache<br />
-l flag: specify kernel and warp configuration. Just use auto.<br />
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At the moment, my mining rigs are as follows:<br />
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<b>GPU's:</b><br />
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185 kh/s: GTX 660 (Gigabyte factory OC'd)<br />
90 kh/s: GTX 550 TI (Gigabyte)<br />
144 kh/s: Radeon 7750 (Sapphire fanless)<br />
96 kh/s: Radeon 7750 (Gigabyte with fan)<br />
198 kh/s: Radeon 6790<br />
198 kh/s: Radeon 6790<br />
283 kh/s: Radeon 6870<br />
30 kh/s: BeaverCreek APU<br />
30 kh/s: Caicos APU<br />
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<b>CPU mining (XPM):</b><br />
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0.044 chains/d :AMD 1100T (0.050+ idle)<br />
0.020 chains/d :AMD 960T (1 core disabled, too hot)<br />
<strike>0.022</strike> 0.008 chains/d :Intel Core Duo<br />
0.010 chains/d:AMD A6 APU<br />
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0.002 chains/d:Celeron M</div>
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Update: It appears that when you find <strike>a prime</strike> higher difficulty prime, you get a bigger share unlike regular mining. Awesome :D<br />
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Also, check <a href="http://www.letslearnthis.com/cryptocurrency/how-to-solo-mine-primecoin-xpm">http://www.letslearnthis.com/cryptocurrency/how-to-solo-mine-primecoin-xpm</a> for solo ming tips<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-21864663750303591852013-09-16T09:35:00.000+02:002013-09-16T09:35:24.412+02:00Torchlight II Robot Parts LocationsWhile playing Torchlight II, it can be difficult to complete one side quest: Robot Parts. It may seem a minor quest, but in fact it's the longest quest of the game, spanning over almost the entire game. The Robot is made up of 5 different parts, all located in 5 different areas/quests. When you've collected all the robot parts, a bot shows up, named Trillbot, who will send you on a final Robot quest: to kill the Three Sisters. Once you've done that, go back to Trillbot to collect your Unique Item reward. It's usually always something useful.<br />
Here you will learn where all the Robot Parts are located, so you can collect them all.<br />
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Part 1 - Robotic Drum<br />Quest: <b>Little Lost Ones</b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Take Crow's Pass to The Widow's Veil</li>
<li>The Drum will be at either Location A or B</li>
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Part 2 - Robotic Arm<br /><b>Quest: Tower of the Moon</b></h3>
<ul>
<li>In the Ossean Wastes, locate the Tower of the Moon </li>
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Part 3 - Robotic Pipes<br /><b>Quest: Shadow of the Skara</b></h3>
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<li>In the Salt Barrens, locate Swarm Point, then locate the Brood Hives (<b>after hitting all the plungers</b>)</li>
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Part 4 - Robotic Body<br /><b>Quest: The Cave-In</b></h3>
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<li>In The Blightbogs, locate The Abandoned Sawmill</li>
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Click him and all like him to access the robotic body.</td></tr>
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Part 5 - Robotic Head<br /><b>Quest: Cacklespit's Realm</b></h3>
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<li>In the Sundered Battlefield, locate Cacklespit's Realm</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wood and stones come together to form a path as you approach it.<br />
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Part 6 - Assemble Robot, talk to it<br />Quest: Three Sisters</h3>
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<li>Wait until the Big Robot beside Professor Stoker goes through the door, then talk to Stoker again.</li>
<li>Then, talk to Trillbot, next to Professor Stoker</li>
<li>In the Sundered Battlefield, locate 3 Sisters</li>
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RAM and SSD disks, how to use them?</h3>
Installing an SSD disk in your system is probably the best thing you can do to upgrade your PC, except for installing more memory into a system with rather little of it.<br />
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If you have 8 or more gigabytes of memory or more; adding a RAM disk to your system can increase performance quite a lot, as well as decreasing the wear and tear on your SSD(s) and other drives.<br />
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In addition to the raw speed of the SSD it self, the RAM disk boosts you another 200-300 megabytes per second, on top of the SSD speedup if you configure Windows and other cache-heavy appsto host it's temporary files on your RAM disk.<br />
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Host the RAM-disk image on the SSD for optimal speed when loading and saving the RAM disk on system restart. The RAM disk loads very early in the boot sequence so any apps depending on your file structure on the RAM disk will not have any problems starting up or shutting down.<br />
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<li>80 GB Intel 320 Series - With Windows 7 x64 installed. User directory not moved.</li>
<li>120 GB Kingston SV300 Series - Installed 2 years after</li>
<li>The free version of <a href="http://www.radeonmemory.com/software_downloads.php" target="_blank">AMD Radeon RAM Disk.</a> (4 GB limit). This RAM disk is loaded and saved to the second SSD on each boot and shutdown.</li>
<li>System memory is a comfy 4x4 GB DDR3 at 1600 MHz, so 16 gigabytes of RAM.</li>
<li>A Lexar USB 3.0 stick. Doesn't perform any better than USB1.0! Shame on Lexar!</li>
<li>160 and 320 gigabyte SATA 2.0 disks. These are used for non-system critical applications, like painting and music programs</li>
<li>Two 500 GB Hitachi SATA 2.0 disks, 5 Gbps in RAID 0 configuration on onboard Marvell controller. This RAID was my earlier 'fast' drive.</li>
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Steps to take assuming you have a pretty full primary SSD, a second SSD to use, and a RAM disk:</div>
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<li>Ensure that your SuperFetch service is running. (Vista,7,8). Look in Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services</li>
<li><a href="http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2013/09/moving-windows-temporary-folders.html" target="_blank">Move the Windows tmp and temp variables to RAM disk</a></li>
<li>Move your various programs\ different temporary folders to the RAM disk, <a href="http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2013/09/changing-google-chromes-cache-folder.html" target="_blank">especially your browsers cache and/or temporary folder data!</a></li>
<li>Move your Windows swap file to the second SSD, or <a href="http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2013/09/changing-or-turning-off-your-windows.html" target="_blank">disable it altogether if you are confident that you have enough RAM.</a></li>
<li>If your system SSD is getting small, you can move the <a href="http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html" target="_blank">User directories over to another disk.</a></li>
<li>Install all your <a href="http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2013/09/portable-apps-and-usb-utilities.html" target="_blank">favourite portable apps on your USB stick.</a> Don't forget that this may confuse your portable apps or any other app if you fail to move everything back in case you uninstall the RAM disk.</li>
<li>Re-install everything Java-related. (JRE and JDK), to the second SSD. Confirm with Control Panel->Java->Java.</li>
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Other Programs</h3>
This is programs where I have confirmed that you can configure custom paths for one thing or another.<br />
I will grow a list here of apps that you can re-configure:</div>
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<ol>
<li>WinMerge - Difff temp folders</li>
<li>PSPad - Backup files directory</li>
<li>uTorrent - Torrent files.</li>
<li>VLC - Encoder temporary files</li>
<li>Locate32 - The database file '<b>files.dbs'</b> database can be moved.</li>
<li>ImgBurn - Log, project files, misc.</li>
<li>SeaMonkey - Cache</li>
<li>7-Zip - Temp folder</li>
<li>Putty - Log files</li>
<li>GIMP - Temp files</li>
<li>WinRAR - Temp files, also for non-removable drives</li>
<li>Audacity - Temp files</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-70508028938057778162013-09-05T19:56:00.001+02:002013-09-05T19:56:39.125+02:00Changing or turning off your Windows swap/page fileYou can turn off, move or resize the computer's virtual memory file , aka swap file, aka page file.<div>
If you have enough memory, like me with my 16 GB, you can most often turn it off and never miss it.</div>
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This will be a considerable speedup from having your page-file on a regular spinning disk. But, me being a power-user and developer, I have so much going on that the system eventually runs out.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Computer->Properties and select Settings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Select 'Advanced' tab and then 'Change'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Select the drive you want to edit the page file settings for. </td></tr>
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As you can see, you can set it to a custom size or:<br />Let it be system managed.</div>
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Turn it off completely.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-68769299817876099502013-09-05T19:36:00.001+02:002013-09-05T19:36:18.427+02:00Changing Google Chrome's cache folderChanging Chrome's cache folder to your RAM-disk or someplace else might speed up your browsing quite a bit. Keeping it off a spinning disk will dramatically improve your access time. I suggest not putting this on an SSD, because of wear and tear. Caching trashes the filesystem a lot.<br />
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<ol>
<li>Close Chrome and locate your shortcut to Chrome. Optionally, locate the Chrome.exe file itself, and create a shortcut.</li>
<li>Right-click the shortcut, and select 'Properties'.</li>
<li>Go to the 'Shortcut' tab.</li>
<li>In the 'Target' line, there will be something like 'C:\Users\equex\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'</li>
<li>Append after that text in double quotes: <strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">--disk-cache-dir="your_drive:\your_folder"</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">. </span>This will only move your cache files, which is good enough.</li>
<li>If you wanted to move your complete Chrome user-folder, append <strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">--disk-user-dir="your_drive:\your_folder"</strong>, and then copy the contents of the old folder into the new one before you start Chrome again.</li>
<li>Click 'Apply' and start Chrome. To verify, look inside your new folder and observe Chrome creating temporary files.</li>
</ol>
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There's a guide for FireFox <a href="http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/10/how-to-move-the-firefox-or-chrome-cache-to-a-ram-disk-and-speed/" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-14026607417048874462013-09-05T19:11:00.002+02:002013-09-05T19:11:52.534+02:00Moving Windows temporary folders<h2>
Change the Windows temporary folders</h2>
This page was just a quick write-up to compliment the SSD/RAM-disk tutorial. To let Windows use a custom location for its temporary files, right-click My Computer and select Properties, then do as follows:<br />
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Go to 'Advanced System Settings'<br />
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Select 'Environment Variables'<br />
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Select 'Edit'<br />
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Edit the folder locations. The default locations will be inside the Windows folder.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-25648520971174801552013-09-04T21:13:00.000+02:002013-09-05T21:14:53.314+02:00Portable Apps and USB Utilities<h3>
Portable Application Compilations</h3>
<a href="http://portableapps.com/">PortableApps.com</a>, this is a huge collection of smaller apps and games.
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<a href="http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/" target="_blank">WSCC</a>, Windows System Controll Centre, a compilation by NirSoft that includes all NirSoft itilities, as well as a comprehensive wrappe of all the SysInternals utilities.
<img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNfxVnmGJvHkLddPkfhxPO2CRI7p9AR-pg-JtWmargb4K2TVWNKT3oeGmxpM45YI9sLqi0nJBoSqdt49ZtiY3t3v0xhgv4AtydatZFb8BS3RpCVugYAZ48YHMcithyphenhyphenUcpzW2hS0o4CPiI/s640/wscc.png" width="640" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-42668084700314887322013-07-24T22:22:00.002+02:002013-07-28T16:39:55.747+02:00Three Android smartphone reviews<div>
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<h4>
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">The three phones in this article:</span></h4>
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<ol>
<li>XCover (GT-S5690). Smallest but thickest. Can be used under water, even. Gingerbread 2.3.3, upgradable to 2.3.6.</li>
<li>S II (GT-I9100) A tiny bit bigger but half the depth. Gingerbread, upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.2.</li>
<li>Note II (GT-N7105 aka t0lte/t0ltexx). Massive. Jelly Bean 4.1.2, upgradeable to 4.3 at some time in the future. Perhaps even Android 5, they say.</li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">
GT-S5690 XCover</span></h4>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2xmUAAeDUY7q05MwWMw39rIz5xm1_M_NTkD32Frbfn2HjglNvU9ZZtr5P66rLGNYUVIdzbTIGQaSV2vgbkZVMZG5_MelX17iIK3Qi4fQJe0ggrVnxF0rCimzeeyfs2GvNtUf9W5wJO_b/s1600/20130724_212345_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2xmUAAeDUY7q05MwWMw39rIz5xm1_M_NTkD32Frbfn2HjglNvU9ZZtr5P66rLGNYUVIdzbTIGQaSV2vgbkZVMZG5_MelX17iIK3Qi4fQJe0ggrVnxF0rCimzeeyfs2GvNtUf9W5wJO_b/s320/20130724_212345_1.jpg" width="320" /></a>This is the XCover 1 and not 2. I have used this phone for 2 years or so, and yes, this phone is solid as a rock. I haven't been able to even scratch it, and it's still good as new.<br />
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The XCover is a so called 'rough', or 'active' phone, seriously modified but crippled to work in most environments. Mine has updated from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6 and has a total of 316MB RAM available, but the system takes some of that. A single-core 1.2 Ghz undeclocked to 800 MHz processor and a low density screen. It has a system storage area of 165 MB, which is what you get to play with.<br />
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It's not a bad phone, but the slowness and memory shortage becomes obvious after a few months use. Well, actually it *is* a bad phone, because sometimes it can take 5-30 seconds for it to actually pull up the dialler and make the actual call. Someone needs to make the dialler a prioritized app in case of emergency. Seriously, on a bad day I can spend 30 seconds getting an outgoing call. It's a good entry level phone, and was my first Android.<br />
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The 'rough' aspect was what sold me, as I was initially opposed to miniature-sized and crippled computers that broke their screens if you lost them, and also caused you acute permanent squinting eyes-syndrome after staring at those small displays that the first smoarthphones came with.<br />
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Coming from a Samsung Solid Extreme B2100 (an ancient feature-phone), this was what I would start with.<br />
Much has changed. Samsung has, at the time of writing, just been ranked the most profitable business in the world, completely obliterating Microsoft and Apple projects. And their phones are solid, Gorilla-Glassed multi-core SoCs that just reeks of high-tech. And most importantly, Samsung devices are open in nature and as such, has the hearts and minds of the geek hordes out there, inevitably making Android rise faster than you can throw a chair out the window.<br />
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This phone is easily rooted but has no active development on any custom ROM's. Someone did actually make a custom kernel to unlock 1.2 GHz on the GT-S5690M variant. This phone is obsolete now and replaced with the XCover 2, which will not sell more than the XCover 1, because they improved nothing, except adding a second core. The problem with this phone is the _memory_, Samsung! I have read that when you root it, you can set up a symlink so you can move apps off the main memory to the SD card as well. (In addition to the already moveable apps).<br />
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After I got the 7105, I wiped & factory restored it, rooted it and now it\s a backup phone in my always-on backpack. This phone will perhaps be used for a wifi security cam, or integrated with my Arduino boards in some way. It does contain 3G networking and an AM/FM radio, something that 4G devices don't.<br />
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Facts: (more over at <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_s5690_galaxy_xcover-4091.php" target="_blank">gsmarena</a>)<br />
<ul>
<li>Gingerbread 2.3.3, TouchWiz UI</li>
<li>Dimensions: 4.80 x 2.60 x 0.47 inches (122 x 66 x 12 mm), <span style="background-color: #fffce0; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">136 grams. </span>Corning Gorilla Glass.</li>
<li>3.65 inch TN LCD, 320x480, 160dpi display. VGA video recording.</li>
<li>3.5 mm stereo jack, USB 2.0 micro-USB connector, both covered up.</li>
<li>GPS, Flashlight, loudspeaker, FM radio (RDS), with headset as antenna</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>316 MB RAM, 158 MB usable. Supports microSD, microSDHC up to 32 GB. Uses mini-SIM.</li>
<li>Marvell MG2 CPU @ 800Mhz, GC800 GPU,, PXA968 chipset.</li>
<li>3.15 MP single camera. 2048×1536 pixels. Video: 640x480 (VGA) (30 fps)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Bluetooth, A2DP, EDR, WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Wi-Fi hotspot</li>
<li>Networks: 2G + 3G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and HSDPA 900 / 2100</li>
<li>GPRS, Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Accelerometer, proximity, compass, magnetic sensor</li>
<li>IP67 rated, Water (Water), Dust, Shock proof</li>
<li>Battery: 500 mAh Li-ion</li>
</ul>
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Includes:</div>
<ul>
<li>Wall charger. (Not USB-adapter)</li>
<li>microUSB cable</li>
<li>2 GB microSD card with SD adapter</li>
</ul>
Pros:<br />
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<ul>
<li>I have used this phone in -35 C winter, +45 C summer, in rain and wind.</li>
<li>I have dropped this phone, thrown it in the wall and there's hardly a scratch in the paint.</li>
<li>Decent sounding speakers. (Doesn't crackle)</li>
</ul>
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Cons:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Way too little memory</li>
<li>Small screen</li>
</ul>
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<h4>
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"> GT-I9100 S II</span></h4>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGyQ9DFUFfpXJ6RpbOb9MU9glppfo7-z1W8MatuWehDN5F2b-iRMjJgL6AHhirebvXJg0W2BT_R7C_ZrkUd75qc0o2V35N9BVgEjmp-sTcCFxrQUScTVELBm7rVTqBK7XY8gVIsqhJlMX/s1600/20130724_170701_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGyQ9DFUFfpXJ6RpbOb9MU9glppfo7-z1W8MatuWehDN5F2b-iRMjJgL6AHhirebvXJg0W2BT_R7C_ZrkUd75qc0o2V35N9BVgEjmp-sTcCFxrQUScTVELBm7rVTqBK7XY8gVIsqhJlMX/s320/20130724_170701_3.jpg" width="320" /></a>Everybody knows the S2, a lethally good phone that are only taken off the market because it's been replaced by S3 and now S4. (which are both ridiculously overpowered and completely overkill for a phone!). This is a lighter phone and is more rectangular then the S3. I have installed CyanogenMod 9 on this one, and it's just fucking awesome. As the S indicates , it's a flagship model and it's essentially Samsung's Destroyer Of iPhones and need no further introduction, but I just have to mention this phone because after I installed CM9, the battery life on this is just ridiculous. Given, I have actually manually disabled the GSM module, this is just insane. Actually, I think S II with CM9 becomes a free energy unit. It's doubleplus good! It has a dual core ARMv7 and 1GB app mem as well as 8 GB internal memory. Of all my phones, this is the one that brings up the camera the fastest.<br />
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<b><i><u>Fun Surveillance Fact:</u></i></b> When it comes to wether the GSM module is active when the phone is off or not, this is extremely obvious to me now: The 5690 died after a few days, and the S II was still on 97% power after it was in it's 2nd week. The proof is indeed in the pudding and so is the NSA. Myth <b>confirmed</b>. As you all know; when you are on your 3rd straight night and your Google Fu is strong; it is not easy to do dig those links up later, but somewhere on the web is the dialler code for disabling the GSM module. In some tyrant countries, both in the east and the west, this might be a crime, just so you might know. But then againt, there was a time after and before Snowden, Manning & Assange.<br />
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Specs:<br />
<ul>
<li>Gingerbread 2.3.4, TouchWiz UI, Upgradable to 4.0.4 and then 4.1</li>
<li>Dimensions: 66.1x8.5,116</li>
<li>Screen: 4.3 inches, 480 x 800</li>
<li>3.5 mm stereo jack, USB 2.0 micro-USB connector</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>1024 MB RAM, 8 GB internal storage. Up to 32GB SDHC card.</li>
<li>CPU: Exynos, dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 (Orion), Mali-400MP GPU.</li>
<li>Camera: 8MP (3264x2448) and full 1080p video recording. Secondary camera @ 1.2MP.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, BT v3.0+HS, A-GPS support</li>
<li>GPRS: Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE 2.0. HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps</li>
<li>No FM radio</li>
<li>Battery: 1650 mAh Li-ion</li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">
GT-N7105 Note II</span></h4>
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This is essentially an S III blown up to half tablet size. This is a so-called 'phablet'. And it's also the first smartphone I've had that I can type on without going insane from hitting 2-4 buttons at the same time. The screen is a fabulous 5.5 inches and it's heavy! Think of this rather as a PDA that can make phone calls, rather than a smartphone. At 1280x720 (and full 1080p over USB) this actually usable as an emergency computer when travelling or just on the toilet. From this I can pretty comfortably use a Terminal Emulator or SSH into my shells or scribble down some ideas. I've installed some compilers, but I haven't gotten to actually develop _on_ the phone yet. The 7105 plugged right into the Eclipse IDE as the 5690 and the 9100 did. I have started development on some (yet not existing!) apps and the 7105 is excellent to develop on, because it has both multi- and single window display mode!</div>
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The memory arrangement is a bit different than usual; both the internal memory and application memory are merged. And then it has only 'device storage'. This means that you cannot move apps to SD card as usual. Such it has a comfortable 8 GB app memory in addition to the 8 GB microSD card. However, I suspect this can be fixed if you root it and set up a symlink, like has been done for the S5690.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCQ_3xVo2esRRWfHnFkLhyphenhyphenplv08XKx2zrjYcqwXKQ79H58gQG27GODTfFIYMQhuxhsgHT7KettjrK80G_pfM-3nCIboQvX5RP43ALPaM2bG_MtMwTd5BP-9U202ULfbtvHtgMgVIhI2d0/s1600/galaxy_test_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCQ_3xVo2esRRWfHnFkLhyphenhyphenplv08XKx2zrjYcqwXKQ79H58gQG27GODTfFIYMQhuxhsgHT7KettjrK80G_pfM-3nCIboQvX5RP43ALPaM2bG_MtMwTd5BP-9U202ULfbtvHtgMgVIhI2d0/s320/galaxy_test_2.png" width="320" /></a>It comes with stock 4.1.2, and has some nice Note-specific apps. It does of course come with a stylus pen. This will enable extra UI features, as you can use the phone from an inch's distance. The stylus has a (non-obvious) button that acts as if you actually pressed against the screen. It has a nice AMOLED display and works reasonably well outside in the sun. It has an 8 MP main camera and a 1.3 MP front side camera. Be aware that it needs a mirco-SIM card. You 'regular' SIM card will not fit.</div>
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<div>
Yeah, about the front side camera. It sees you. It stalks you. It <i>knows</i>. It will rotate the screen to match your face. It will adjust the intensity level of the screen depending on ambient light, if you wish. It will tell you the time if you try to reach for it. I shit you not. You can also talk to this phone, it will even start beeping if you walk away from the stylus pen. Creepy stuff. But at least I have it enclosed in a book-cover. This is the precursor to the Trapperkeeper 9000!</div>
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<div>
The 7105 has a CM for it, but it's not stable, and only provides experimental and nightly builds. At this moment, several of the last 14 builds would not boot.<br />
<br />
Specs: (more info <a href="http://www.gsmnation.com/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-n7105-lte-16gb-marble-white.html#" target="_blank">here</a>)</div>
<ul>
<li>JellyBean 4.1.2. Will be upgradable to 4.3.</li>
<li>Dimensions: 151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4 mm</li>
<li>720 x 1280 pixels, 5.5 inches</li>
<li>3.5 mm stereo jack, USB 2.0 micro-USB connector</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>2048 MB RAM, 8 GB internal storage. Up to 32 GB SDHC card.</li>
<li>CPU: Exynos, quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9 (Orion), Mali-400MP GPU.</li>
<li>Camera: 8MP (3264x2448) and full 1080p video recording. Secondary camera @ 2.0MP.</li>
<li>Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, A-GPS support and GLONASS</li>
<li>BT v4.0 with A2DP, LE, EDR</li>
<li>GPRS: , EDGE 2.0. HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>No FM radio. Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer</li>
<li>Battery: 1650 mAh Li-ion</li>
</ul>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4>
Epilog</h4>
<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0HerLmXVBHrcyynLG3N3luIG12d9foXVysc-u3GJCm5q_ANFHIjuqx4Nffo_Dm82DA9siPvbq7aW8BNrzGg3V-uErXTwZMY6AEeDbHbVDmWEnshtX5O19lPWV4lwoYAUiSkevj-ZUHWn/s1600/galaxy_test_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0HerLmXVBHrcyynLG3N3luIG12d9foXVysc-u3GJCm5q_ANFHIjuqx4Nffo_Dm82DA9siPvbq7aW8BNrzGg3V-uErXTwZMY6AEeDbHbVDmWEnshtX5O19lPWV4lwoYAUiSkevj-ZUHWn/s320/galaxy_test_1.png" width="320" /></a>Rumors has it that the S3 and the Note 2 will skip 4.2.2 and jump straight to 4.3. That is a shame, because there are several bugs in the 4.1.2 interface, most annoying is the fact that apps deleted from folders on the home screens won't always clean up the slot it had in the folder and the space remains empty and no amount of tinkering will make it right again. There are some others I've noticed too, like the background picture mysteriously disappears sometimes, only to come back after going in to the app list and back. The good news is that our devices has been chosen as the only two to actually receive 4.3. Some say even 5.0. For all your questions about rooting, and modding and the tools of the trade, refer to <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/">http://forum.xda-developers.com/</a> <b><i><u>f</u></i></b>.</div>
<div>
<br />
<i>A friendly warning: Do not use so-called M2 memory with Samsung phones. It's for Ericsson phones. They will die after a certain time. My wife and I got our 8 GB cards on the same day and they stopped working on the same day after a year or so! They were not rescuable. So, if you card has the letters M2 anywhere on the card itself, it is an M2 card!</i><br />
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
Updates:</h3>
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<div>
<h4>
Update, July 25th 18:52</h4>
<div>
Here's some more useful links that you might want to visit after reading this.</div>
<h4>
GT-S5690 files:</h4>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://uploading.com/files/8m63916d/Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip/">http://uploading.com/files/8m63916d/Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip/</a> - ZIP file to put on your mircoSD card: </li>
<li><a href="http://dfiles.eu/files/8i17empsz">http://dfiles.eu/files/8i17empsz</a> - Mirror</li>
<li><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22479597&postcount=15">http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22479597&postcount=15</a> - The actual post on the XDA thread where tlc76 posts these</li>
<li>Confirmed to work on my GT-S5690 from Telenor (Norway)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h4>
GT-I9100 files for changing kernel, checking FLASH, rooting and installing CM9:</h4>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2012/10/rooting-and-modding-samsung-galaxy-s2.html">http://professorfalkenherald.blogspot.no/2012/10/rooting-and-modding-samsung-galaxy-s2.html</a> - I wrote a blog post last year about how I rooted and installed CyanogenMod 9 on my S II.</li>
<li>Confirmed to work on my GT-I9100. Upgrade to 4.02 and install Siyah kernel first, then run emmc-echecked.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h4>
GT-N7105 threads:</h4>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032849">http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032849</a> - I haven\t personally rooted my 7105 yet, so no guarantees here. I might wait until 4.3, or until CyanogenMod 10.1 becomes stable for this device.</li>
<li><a href="http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/">http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/</a> - Chainfire AutoRoot downloads</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
Generally, our friendly superhero chainfire has developed root techniques for several Android models. Check <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980683" target="_blank">this</a> site out.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-58710335922043037432013-05-09T23:24:00.000+02:002013-06-05T11:21:42.526+02:00Bitcoin mining and profitability[Updated 22/05/2013]<br />
[Updated 24/05/2013]<br />
[Updated 04/06/2013] <br />
<br />
To mine Bitcoins, be sure you do your calculations first. I can only tell you my own estimates. But here I go:<br />
<h4>
What cards to mine with? </h4>
You need AMD cards. Short and simple.<br />
<br />
Almost any AMD mid-high end card will be profitable, and the more the better.<br />
Nvidia cards only deliver about a third to about a half of what an AMD card can do for these kinds of operations.<br />
<br />
This is not due to bad manufacturing from Nvidia's side. This is due to the architechture differences, and can not be used
against Nvidia, because these cards are primarily gaming and workstation
cards and infact my GTX660 outperform my Crossfire'd dual 6790 cards.<br />
<br />
GPU's are simply meant to render games and not do cryptography. Also, AMD has chosen a more-cores-is-better strategy, while Nvidia chose the fewer-but-higher-powered-cores strategy.<br />
<h4>
Power draw </h4>
Here is some raw data:<br />
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As you can see, the MHash/watt column speaks for itself. The 8800 GT card that many like to mine with is barey any help at all. Same with the GTX660, although it performs better per watt.<br />
<br />
The winner is the Sapphire-produced 6790 cards, which are basically two 6770 cards baked into one. This is in truth a 4x6770 rig, but divided into 2x6790-branded monsters.<br />
<br />
The low-end 6450 cards have the best ratio, but they simply don't produce nearly as much BTC as the other cards. They are more economic though, and also very quiet.<br />
<br />
Based on calculations on bit, (well, I stole this formula: 0.56 USD/24h@100MHash/s), and accounting for two things, I realized how I can profit:<br />
<h4>
To mine or not to mine </h4>
If my Nvidia-based desktop is on _anyway_, then mining with Nvidia cards are _barely_ profitable. But in no way does it pay to have an Nvidia-based rig on for the sake of mining, that will negate any profit, unless you do not pay for power.<br />
<br />
However, with AMD-based rigs, having then on 24/7 for the sake of will actually pay off. Not much in my case, but some. Currently, after 3 days of much interrupted mining, I have earned $3.236, but the next few days should go smoother. Some rigs cannot run at 100% capacity all day due to noise, but I'll post some more values later.<br />
<h4>
Pooling </h4>
Of course, mining alone makes no sense. I have joined up with <a href="https://mining.bitcoin.cz/" target="_blank">slush</a>'s pool and have engaged about 9 worker GPU's, at tines reaching almost 0.5GigaHash (500Mhash). Now I have a rate of about 700Mh and I am expecting an 6850 and a 4850x2 in the mail anytime now. That would probably boost me to a close 2GH. >D<br />
<h4>
CPU mining </h4>
Also, CPU mining is not worth it at all either. A Phenom X6 1100T @3.7Ghz mines about 10M/hash for about 20 Watts, so that's a no-deal.<br />
<h4>
The hard numbers and tools you need</h4>
You will need to install a so called <a href="http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet" target="_blank">Wallet</a>. This is a cryptographic file that contains the data needed to store your money. Personally I am using <a href="https://multibit.org/releases/multibit-0.5.9/multibit-0.5.9-windows.exe" target="_blank">Multibit</a>, because it's just a bit faster to sync up.<br />
<br />
Set up your account at the pool, I am using <a href="https://mining.bitcoin.cz/" target="_blank">Slush's Pool.</a> <br />
<br />
You can find guiminer <a href="http://guiminer.org/" target="_blank">here</a>. This is the easiest tool for beginners. It defaults to OpenCL renderers but you can install any mining backend.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/" target="_blank">GPU-Z</a> - Monitor your GPU <br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.sapphireselectclub.com/ssc/TriXX/" target="_blank">Sapphire TRIXX</a> - tweak your Sapphire cards <br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=mwrLcmBsL" target="_blank">CUDA addon</a> for guiminer, slightly increase Mh.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries" target="_blank">Optimized CGminer</a> addon for guiminer<br />
<br />
<a href="https://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining#download" target="_blank">Mining proxy</a> - And other tools, keep your local miners banging one internal server than your pool operator. Slight Mh increase. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://openexchangerates.org/" target="_blank">Exchange rate webservice</a> Will give you an API token to put into guiminer so you can get more currency conversions. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://mining.bitcoin.cz/what-is-namecoin" target="_blank">What is Namecoin?</a> <br />
Merged mining with <a href="http://namecoin.bitcoin-contact.org/" target="_blank">Namecoin</a>:<br />
<a href="http://namecoin.bitcoin-contact.org/" target="_blank">Info</a> <br />
<a href="http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterBitDomains" target="_blank">Help page here</a> <br />
<a href="http://register.dot-bit.org/" target="_blank">Register a .bit NameCoin domain</a>. (Can be synergized with BitCoin at Slush's Pool) <br />
<br />
My current Bitcoin address is 1Fk5kGvhTPhzmgUDU8dDugB5LF122DExLY<br />
My current Namecoin address is MyUxMoHueS1UyUrJMYUivDAfdCaquY21MR<br />
<br />
Feel free to try to send me some coins!<br />
<h4>
Some flags to pass to guiminer:</h4>
-v (vector mode) Doesn't accept parameters in guiminer. <br />
<br />
-w128 (worker threads)<br />
<br />
-f60 to -f200 Desired desktop framerate, used to make sure other apps recieve proper FPS.<br />
OR<br />
-s0.015 Delay each frame by this much, used to nerf capacity to reduce noise and temp.<br />
<br />
Play around with these values to see what works best. Usually I keep one CPU core per GPU card. The 6870 actually required 2 cores to gobble enough data to fill its 1120 cores.<br />
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Some examples of what some hardware will perform:</span></h4>
<ul>
<li><h4>
AMD cards </h4>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Sapphire Radeon 6450 (Caicos, 160 x Stream Processors)<br />Standard business-class word processing card, but does a good 30Mh. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>AMD Radeon 6490M (Lamo)<br />30Mh. This is the 'office' desktop piece of an AMD A6 3410MX APU based laptop. I has the following chips:<br /></li>
<li>AMD Radeon HD 6520G<br />The laptop swi<span style="background-color: black;"><span></span></span>tches to this for high-performance needs, like gaming. (And mining!)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Sapphire Radeon 6790 (Bart, 800 cores)<br />180Mh out of the box, but they can do up to 196. My two 6790's are also in my wives' gaming PC and so I set them up with -f200 so she can play without notiching lag.<br /><br /> </li>
<li><strike>XFX</strike> Sapphire Radeon 7750 (Cape Verde Pro, 512 cores) <br />Noiseless! Also, only requires 50 watts and no PCIe power cables either. 126Mh [-v -w 128 -f0].</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Gigabyte Radeon 7750 (Cape Verde, 512 cores) ~ 120Mh [-v -w 128 -f0] </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>XFX Radeon 6870 (Bart, 1120 cores) <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;">NEW!</span></span><br />Does 266Mh [-v -w256 -f100] but with -w256, memory clocked to 340 and overclocked to 900 it did 296.6.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>ATI Radeon 4850x2 <span style="color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: black;">NEW!<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">250 watts.</span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><h4>
Nvidia cards</h4>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Gigabyte GeForce GTX660 2GB (GK106, 960 cores)<br />Does 70Mh [-v -w256 -f60, but wih rpcminer-mod-cuda.exe I tweaked 81.8 out of this. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>PNY GeForce 8800GT 512 ~ 30Mh</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><h4>
CPU Mining (regular guiminer)</h4>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
1100T @ 3700MHz ~ 10Mh<br />
960T @ 3400Mhz ~ 7Mh <br />
Intel i5 @2900Mhz ~5Mh</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Some more cards I got just for this project:</span></h3>
Sapphire
Radeon 6870:<br />
This card is awesome and delivers just short of 300Mh.. The
6870 has 1200 cores and are really just a rebranded 5870 - a true AMD
masterpiece. Here's some stats:<br />
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As you can see, this run was made using a local proxy against slush's pool on a gigabit network. Also, all these cards promptly puts our motherboards into PCIe 8X mode. This is expected and will probably affect the total bandwidth by a few percent. I might do a single card test to see if 8X or 16X is any different.<br />
<br />
ATI (yeah) Radeon 4850x2:<br />
A
massive beast, longer than the 6870 and draws even more power. I was
struggling with the power cables so this card is untested still, but
this will be interesting. Unfortunately, it seems to have been assembled in a way that makes the PCB curve i bit and it looks a bit unsettling.<br />
<h4>
</h4>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
Do's and dont's: </span></h3>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">ALL gambling will set you back very quickly.<br />SOME free BTC faucets with captcha solvers are often a scam<br />DO NOT mine with a CPU<br />DO use a pool<br />DON'T mine if you aren't ready for micromanaging lots of infrastructure. Buy and sell trough regular exchanges instead.</span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Does this sound too complicated ? Hire me to set up a Bitcoin farm</span></h4>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Final thoughts </span></h3>
Also, to finetune your setup, you can overclock the core speeds and underclock the memory speeds.This will save you watts as well as reduce GPU wear and tear. Install your overclock and tweak tools and see how much you can reduce power draw without sacrificing too much speed.<br />
<br />
So invest in some extra quiet fans and place your rig close to a
ventilation hole to dissipate some heat. Ofcourse, as a Norwegian
resident, this is just a replacement for other heater installations
during the winter! During summer, power is cheap but produces a lot of heat.<br />
<br />
Be warned that GPU's at full workload will heat some cards really well. My 8800GT was over 100C!<br />
<br />
My two mining rigs are just a few Mh off a Gigahash/sec for about 800-900 watts of PSU and did during the test period mine just above half a Bitcoin with MANY interrupts. Daily payout: about $4 with threshold at 0.3. Probably tweakable to 5-6. (Also gaines 0.05NMC co-mining with slush, using Acrylic DNS and OpenDNS. Pretty sweet setup!)<br />
<br />
I tried BFGminer also, which is really sweet, but I had trouble with the temperature variables. Also the 64 bit version did not work under my setup. Only the 32bit one.<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-77434946390058777722013-05-03T23:42:00.000+02:002013-08-26T18:54:18.914+02:00USB3.0 vs USB.2.0[Updated Aug. 26 2013]<br />
<br />
I had bought a new Seagate 2TB USB3.0 disk and gave it a spin. Here's some results that I wrote at the time; and some updates.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
This was done on the Gigabyte FX990-UD7 mainboard which has an Eltron USB3.0 controller and I have it set up with two 250GB 3Gbit SATA2 disks on the Marvell RAID controller on the board, and an Intel 80 GB SSD disk.<br />
<br />
USB2.0 is mostly limited to around 20-25MB second, depending on your controller. Remember, if you want network speeds over 10MB/sec you will have <strike>want</strike> to upgrade to a Gigabit home network. Then you can achieve speeds around 100 MB/sec.<br />
<br />
So, it would be pretty clear that the days of 100 MBit networks are over. To accommodate these now ubiqous technologies as RAID, SSD and USB3, I expect gigabit switches to sell good the coming year. <br />
<br />
Update:<br />
<br />
Added one Kingston 120 GB SSD SATA3.0 drive.<br />
From the USB3.0 to the new SATA3.0, I achieved around 310 MB per second accoring to the Resource Monitor, but the file dialog claimed substantially less.<br />
<br />
One of the reasons I had to get the new SSD was ofcourse that the 3 year old 80 GB Intel drive was full, as it is the main system drive, so I have had no SSD to actually put stuff I use. The first thing I did was to move everything Java-related onto the new disk: JRE, JDK, Eclipse and the Android SDK. I noticed an immidiate 2x speedup, and before this, the software was located on the RAID0 drive in this test'<br />
<br />
Also 'added' was a 4 GB ' AMD Radeon RAM disk'. This disk is used for Chrome and Windows temporary files. The disk is loaded very early in the boot sequence, and can probably host more interesting things.<br />
<br />
Using a single test file of ~4 GB, except for when testing the 4 GB RAM disk, I used a 2.3 GB file.<br />
These values are the observed max values under the Windows transfer dialog.<br />
<br />
RAID0 2x3Gbit to USB3: 150MB/sec<br />
USB to RAID0 2x3Gbit: 190MB/sec<br />
SSD SATA2 to USB3: 180MB/sec<br />
USB3 to SSD SATA2: 190MB/sec<br />
SSD SATA2 to RAID0 2x3Gbit: 225MB/sec<br />
RAID0 2x3Gbit to SSD SATA2: 135MB/sec<br />
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<b>USB3 to SSD SATA3: 210MB/sec</b><br />
<b>SSD SATA3 to USB3: 215MB/sec</b><br />
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They are both of the class called 'UVA' which goes from 400 – 315 nm. The separate LED's do however seem to be a bit brigther. Also the construction itself of the two differ a tiny bit - we are talking sub-millimetre and fractions of degrees.<br />
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Here's a table of UV wavelengths, ripped right out of Wikipedia.<br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ultraviolet A</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">UVA</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">400 – 315 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">3.10 – 3.94 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">long wave, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Black light">black light</a></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ultraviolet B</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">UVB</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">315 – 280 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">3.94 – 4.43 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">medium wave</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Ultraviolet C</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">UVC</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">280 – 100 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">4.43 – 12.4 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">short wave, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradiation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation">germicidal</a></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Near Ultraviolet</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">NUV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">400 – 300 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">3.10 – 4.13 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">visible to birds, insects and fish</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Middle Ultraviolet</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">MUV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">300 – 200 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">4.13 – 6.20 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Far Ultraviolet</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">FUV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">200 – 122 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">6.20 – 10.16 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Hydrogen Lyman-alpha</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">H Lyman-α</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">122 – 121 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">10.16– 10.25 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Ultraviolet" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Extreme Ultraviolet">Extreme Ultraviolet</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">EUV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">121 – 10 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">10.25 – 124 eV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Vacuum Ultraviolet</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">VUV</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">200 – 10 nm</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">6.20 – 124 eV</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-37092173264282169622013-01-26T16:12:00.000+01:002013-01-26T16:12:56.155+01:00Using a TV remote to control an ArduinoI had bought a couple of pairs of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1474155947"></span>these IR emitters/receivers<span id="goog_1474155948"></span></a> and wondered if the wavelength of the light would be the same as for standard IR remote controllers for TV sets.<br />
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So instead of trying to hook up the emitters, I went straight for the TV remote. I had two available; one universal remote and one Panasonic DVD/TV remote.<br />
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The red one is the LTR301 (reciever) and the yellow one is the emitter. (LTR302).<br />
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Using IRremote.h, I was able to collect the raw IR codes from the remote control. This required me to remove the file Tone.cpp from the Arduino IDE's /cores folder. The reason for this was that IRremote.h library was implementing the same interrupt handlers. I am not using the tone generation functions in this library, so I just moved it outside the root folder and then IRremote.h would compile eventually :)<br />
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Having no use for the actual functions of the remote, I don't bother to translate them. I just made a lookup-table of what to do for each code, and drew out a sketch on paper what button produces what code. An obvious use of some buttons, like the 'center joystick-like pad', usually consisting of four identical left-right and up-down buttons for channel and volume, respectively, was ideal for forward-backward and turning control.<br />
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I hooked the IR sensor up with a 10k resistor, this gave me a detection range of about 50cm, straight angeled on the side of the sensor. Not very practical for a remote controlled device, but some modificationm of this could extend the range.<br />
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On the other hand, I do have the both the IO shield and the Mega ADK and a spare Android phone, so this could be controlled over BlueTooth or Wifi too. This could be a low level fail-safe input channel, in case the robot has to be shut down at a moments notice, regardless of the potential fickles of BT and WiFi reliability on an Arduino system.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-74555512244777372013-01-11T22:30:00.003+01:002013-01-11T22:30:40.613+01:00Rover 5 Robot soon readySo there's been a while since last post.<br />
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Huge improvements has been done. The robot is essentially operational. This is what what I have done so far: This robot seems fairly similar to Mr. Explorer, actually.<br />
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<li>Rover 5 (4 motor/encoders, the ROV5.3 model) </li>
<li>DFrobot Robot Base Plate mounted on 50mm standoffs. 9V</li>
<li>Dagu 4 channel motor controller mounted upside-down on 250mm standoffs, right under the pan servo.</li>
<li>Metal framework mostly made of Hoist/Metal Element metal pieces.</li>
<li>Arduino Mega ADK mounted with baseplate and mini breadboard, vertically 9v.</li>
<li>Arduino Ubo R3 mounted with HME parts, including mini breadboard, vertically. 9v.</li>
<li>DFrobot Pan/Tilt Kit but with extra long U bracket</li>
<li>Maxbotix LV+EZ1 Ultra Sonar (Running on high power 4.5v battery, measured to 4.9 volts)</li>
<li>Dagu/AREXX IR Compound eye. 5v</li>
<li>8 and 9 mounted on tilt servo with HME parts.</li>
<li>IR detector, using an old PanasonicTV remote to communicate with the detector</li>
<li>Piezo buzzer, photoresitor, 2x LM35 temp sensor, humidity sensor, dewpoint sensor, 2x IR sensors</li>
<li>4-keys on breadboard for core functions</li>
<li>Sparkfun LCD 09531 128x64 LCD (Running on separate 9V)</li>
<li>Custom 2-tier OS, codenamed 'Defiance', with multitasking and will communicate with you trough LCD and a buzzer. User input is the 4 keys and a TV remote.</li>
<li>Diffused tricolor LED for system status indication.</li>
<li>Mega and Uno communicates vie RX-TX and RX1-TX1. (Still working on that.)</li>
<li>TODO: Hook up my S2 running CM9 and utilize BlueTooth, WiFi and of course its excellent array of sensors, the 1080p camera and the sheer power of a quad core ARM to do the heavy CPU stuff!</li>
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Now all code is tested, all components are running separately and the work ahead now is just to tie it together with some neat AI, as well as tidy up the code, gather some more credits (yes i blatantly stole some code here and there).</div>
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My primary concern now is to figure out a mechanism that will kill the 4 motor power source in case the 5V controller supply should die. (this situation is not good)</div>
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My other problem is that the one of the robot chassis tracks will derail once in a while. I am working on a remedy including weight distribution and tape. I will at the end of this produce a how-to on this whole endeavour.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first version of cabling between the motor controller and a breadboard.<br />Although it would probably work, I decided to use regular F7F cables instead.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mounting the LCD. This was not actually a good location, so it was removed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First incarnation of the robot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A later version; with LCD on the back</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The other side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Uno drives, the motors, the sonar and the IR. It signals the Mega if anything interesting is happening.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-74792552739972809822013-01-02T18:26:00.001+01:002013-01-02T18:26:17.818+01:00DFRobot capacitor packsJust to have this at a place I know, here's the shipping list for a 250-pack of capacitors from DFRobot. (it's not 220, it's 250!). The markings on the bags and the caps themselves was a bit washed out, but this list pretty much clears up any doubts:<br />
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<li>1pf (10 units)</li>
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<li>6pf (10 units) </li>
<li>10pf (10 units) </li>
<li>15pf (10 units) </li>
<li>20pf (10 units) </li>
<li>22pf (10 units) </li>
<li>30pf (10 units) </li>
<li>33pf (10 units) </li>
<li>47pf (10 units) </li>
<li>68pf (10 units) </li>
<li>100pf -101 (10 units)</li>
<li>220pf -221(10 units) </li>
<li>330pf -331(10 units) </li>
<li>470pf -471(10 units)</li>
<li>680pf -681(10 units)</li>
<li>1000pf-102 (10 units)</li>
<li>2200pf-222 (10 units)</li>
<li>3300pf-332 (10 units)</li>
<li>4700pf-472(10 units)</li>
<li>10000pf=10nf-103 (10 units)</li>
<li>22000pf=22nf-223 (10 units)</li>
<li>33000pf=33nf-333 (10 units)</li>
<li>47000pf=47nf-473 (10 units)</li>
<li>100000pf=100nf-104 (10 units)</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-18839472347226525332012-12-28T17:55:00.000+01:002012-12-28T17:55:30.140+01:00Rover 5 testFinally, I got to test out the controller and motors. I had some problems with the motors stalling at first; it would seem that this revision of the controller is not entirely compatible with the motors. Direction was reversed and also opposite on the same side; leaving me with an if-else block of code to make the desired movement.<br />
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Heres a short video:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAFjcacjHo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAFjcacjHo</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-80147868527978321192012-12-01T01:57:00.000+01:002012-12-01T21:22:34.192+01:00Last post for a week or so, moving to new location!So we are moving into a new apartment on Tuesday, so robot building and blogging will be suspended to sometime next week, when all has settled down. Here's some more pictures of the Rover 5 project and some pictures and links.<br />
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Update: 01-11-12: Some corrections<br />
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<a href="http://www.1728.org/resisclr.htm">Resistor calculator</a> (at <a href="http://www.1728.org/">http://www.1728.org/</a>)<br />
<a href="http://www.michaels-electronics-lessons.com/">Michaels electronics lessons</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think I am going to attach this breadboard to this<br />
Hoist/Metal Elements frame I came up with.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Setting up a frame for attaching various stuff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Latest shipment from <a href="http://www.robonor.no/">Robonor.no</a>: <br />
2000x resistor package<br />
200x capacitor package<br />
10x diodes (not pictured)<br />
Protoboard<br />
Standoffs<br />
Screws<br />
20x F/F cables</td></tr>
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So far, the main parts of the robot is:<br />
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<li>4-motor Rover 5 with encoders</li>
<li>Dagu 4 channel 2.5A controller (credits to Dev Donkey for <a href="http://devdonkey.blogspot.no/2011/12/robot-02.html">good pictures of wiring</a> and setup)</li>
<li>Arduino Mega ADK with TX to an Arduino Uno R3 (slave)</li>
<li>Samsung Galaxy S2 with CM9 (planning to get some pan/tilt kits to mount this as a HD camera as well using it for it's CPU power & WiFi/BT)</li>
<li><strike>Dagu</strike> AREXX IR compound eye</li>
<li>Maxbotix LV EZ1 ultra sound sonar (<a href="http://bildr.org/2011/03/various-proximity-sensors-arduino/">good tutorial here</a>) on a separate 5v circuit for minimum interference. I made a <a href="https://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=34015">thread on the Sparkfun forum</a>, lots of input there. Thanks guys!</li>
<li>Linear temperature sensor + 2 simple temp sensors</li>
<li>16x2 LCD</li>
<li>128x64 LCD on separate 9v course (draws quite a bit of power, trying to avoid dip)</li>
<li>Humidity sensor</li>
<li>Dew point sensor</li>
<li>2x QRD1114 phototransistors (for rear proximity) (<a href="http://bildr.org/2011/03/various-proximity-sensors-arduino/">tutorial</a>, same page as EZ1)</li>
<li>2x IR RX/TX transmitters</li>
<li>2x Dual channel 2A motor controllers</li>
<li>Pan/tilt arm</li>
<li>2x mini breadboards, one of them mainly for buttons to control OS</li>
<li>DFRobot Protoboard</li>
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Most of it has been up and running at some point, I am working on the OS to control everything. Lots of code to organize.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm trying to build some form of exoskeleton around<br />
fragile parts, like the LCD. It's not that easy, considering<br />
the pan/tilt arm has quite a bit of turning range and<br />
will easily crash into something if the controlling code<br />
has bugs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see the Dagu controller mounted beneath the servo too,<br />
as well as IR compound eyes mounted in front.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top view. Adding more rails and brackets to further extend<br />
mountability.</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8231444945127967385.post-48926175978056145152012-11-17T11:01:00.000+01:002012-11-21T18:57:43.210+01:00DFRobot Robot basis plates, Rover 5 mounting hacks<h2>
Adding stuff to your robot with 'nonstandard' parts.</h2>
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'Builder Center - Metal Elements'</h3>
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I've found that the Hoist sets (mentioned in earlier post) and these ones are really useful for Arduino/DFrobot/Rover 5 units.</div>
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Some of the screws from these kits doesn't fit the basis plate, but all you have to do is to mount an angled bracket from the Hoist/BCME kits with standard DFrobot screws, and then build on the metal parts with the included Hoist/BCME screws. Just be sure that you have a bunch of standard DFRobot screw sets.</div>
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Just to give you an idea, an angled bracket (4-40) costs about a dollar at my retailer. This set includes 691 parts (not sure if it that includes the immense amount of screws and nuts as well) and costs about 35 bucks. </div>
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But here are a huge load of beams, plates, brackets of different shapes and configurations. I was able to mount sensors, motors etc. with this kit. Go buy it, you wont regret! They have many different sets, this one with 691 parts are the biggest one they had.</div>
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I am not sure Meccano parts fit, they look like they do, but they also cost 4-6 times as much.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is their smallest kit (atleast in my store) and it costs around 10 bucks.<br />
I bought this first, but I'm going to get their biggest set tomorrow. It has 650 piceces or so. The little one on the picture has 45 peces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Losts of metal plates and brackets + some tools.<br />
Some of the stuff does not 100% fit DFrobot stuff, but most do.<br />
You will easily find a workaround if you encounter a problem.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inckuded kit of screws, big and small. The big ones did not fit the<br />
robot basis plate. Havent tried the Hoist screws with DFrobot<br />
screws of standoffts yet, BUT Dfrobot screws and standoff fit with<br />
all the metal parts!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Current revision of my Rover 5, nothing working still....<br />
This revision is based on scavenged PC hardware still.<br />
I will post new pictures as soon as the new mounting options are utilized.</td></tr>
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