In that reply to the other user, I'm using the specifications of the official miner to tout the wise selection of components for the average Skyminer.
Fortunately we can scale down much more for areas like Africa with things like $5 FPGA chips and do things like make yagi antennas out of trash that aren't as likely to be stolen.
A lot of solutions will be region specific.
Christopher Brooks
Meeting different needs is trivial. The software can be distributed on a number of hardware platforms that fit the economic enviroment for a given location. The same goes for antennas that will be used. Skywire will have a very positive economic impact in poor regions so growth/upgrading should be expected.
Jonathan Howard
Jow Forums fud = pump incoming
Kevin Green
agreed, Africans and third worlders will desperately, and I mean desperately, need access to bare bones non censored information. Even if its in a shitty .txt format so long as they can get it SKY wire is a multi hundred dollar coin provided no competition comes out that does its job better. The way things are going the west might need it too.
Henry King
Don't worry, we're getting there, we're close to another breakthrough in implementation.
Just like the original iPhone didn't do anything new, it's more about the assembly of existing tech in the right combination and vision.