InTheMail | Voltlog #408

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Let’s start with this raspberry pi 4 aluminium heatsink/enclosure, I prefer these over a traditional plastic enclosure and over traditional metal enclosures because these can also act as a passive heatsink. Going with just a plastic enclosure isn’t gonna work for you unless you plan to keep the raspberry pi idle all the time and going with a metal enclosure would also require installing some heatsinks and or cooling fans. Depending on what you are running on the pi you might get away with just passive cooling from one of these.

This one apparently is designed specifically for the pi4 so the aluminium islands that are supposed to contact the chips have exactly the right shape and size for that. It’s impo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfHj56HBEo