This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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Small update for this week. Most of my prep work is already complete, so I’m in a bit of a holding pattern until I can finalize the purchase of the miners. Seems that part of the team from the distributor I’d like to work with is in Dubai for an expo, which slows things down. Ah well, it’ll come in time.
Beyond that, juggling investors is weird sometimes. I have raised a moderate amount of money for this project, and the people behind it have strange questions sometimes. I do my best to make sure they understand everything (the risks, how Bitcoin mining itself works, how the company is set up)… But there still abound small misunderstandings here and there. I’m not sure whether it’s my own issues with explaining, or their desire to make money taking precedence over reading pages of text.
I saw some of your posts from the past week or two, that you're doing a lot of this from scratch. I'm interested in what you're doing on the utilities side (heat exchanger, PLCs, power). I have about a decade of experience as an engineer in the heavy industrial space, mostly on power distribution (which I can speak to quite well), but I have some basic experience with industrial controls as well (which I have enough knowledge to be dangerous). My day job is a very scaled-up version of what you intend to do, but the principles are the same.
If you're running into technical challenges, I'd be glad to bounce some ideas back and forth.
An unsolicited open-source reference that you might find useful, mostly applicable to North American practices, but might be a good jumping-off point: https://ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/doc/liii.html (Lessons in Industrial Instrumentation)
You’re the man! Thank you for reaching out, I did figure there were some smart people here and I might get lucky :)
I appreciate the resource and will check it out. It’s late here and I’m calling it a night for now, but I’ll come back and go over what I’m thinking in more depth tomorrow. A sanity check would be appreciated. I feel confident that I can do this, but I am acutely aware that there are a bunch of lessons that have to be learned through experience… And that it’s both easier and cheaper for someone else to already have that experience.
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