Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s

Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by hathvi on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:45PM (#15573558)

This made me excited to see as well. Here's some more information for others that may be interested.

Skip to 9 minutes for a more fluent english speaker that I found much easier to follow. He mentions wiping Android, installing some base OS and using Docker at 12:25 in the video.

The website http://upcycling.io/

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by CommanderData on Saturday October 28, 2017 @04:27AM (#15574435)

This is a great idea from Samsung. A phone has everything needed to become a useful IoT device.

But how would I connect sensors and other things to the phone?

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by ISKthrow on Saturday October 28, 2017 @05:35AM (#15574545)

USB-OTG?

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