HomeLabs: No more Mister Nice Pi
I originally bought a Raspberry Pi zero 2w as a Pwnagotchi for network testing. Its a great idea, somewhat out of date now but it works. I tried to run other projects on it for more network testing and probing but it was always unstable, extremely hot and rebooting randomly. Even with a heatsink on it. So I opted for an upgrade of the board and got the Model B, I knew it needed a case so I opted for the Flirc case as it is the most recommended one. Combined with a Brostrend wifi adapter the kernal recompile for the drivers took around seven hours to complete. The heat instability kept showing itself and I took the entire case apart to see why. The top cover is plastic and it hides a hollow chamber leading to the CPU. This seems to hold heat in and doesnt radiate heat, so I left the cover off and tried again. I also stuffed a heatsink into the chamber to help get the heat out. It was better, but its not great. I finally bought four Pi 4 heatsinks and stuck them to the top of the case, it radiates heat, its stable and will now run all day without issues.
These are project boards, all in ones for experimenting and learning but the overall cost creeps up rapidly. The Raspberry Pi is around £35, The case is £15, the heatsinks were around £10 so all in its about £60 and the SD of course on top of that with prices being so high its £15-20. Then it got me thinking, is there a better way than this ? More coming in part II
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