Need a good sturdy case for your favourite little mini-PC? Cooler Master think they have something that will interest you with the Cooler Master Pi Case 40.
It's a Kickstarter exclusive, meaning they're using the crowdfunding platform as a place to order it and that will be the only place you're able to grab yourself one. It's designed to be a 'long lasting, premium enclosure for Raspberry Pi 4 pro users' giving you a durable shell that protects, keeps it cool and offers a number of pretty sweet sounding additional features baked right into it. They're also saying it will be super quiet even under 'heavy' overclocks, because of the thermal design so you don't need a fan.
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Case Features Highlight:
- Remappable power ON/OFF button
- Full accessibility to board’s connectors
- 100% passively cooled
- 0 Db operation
- Overclocking ready cooling solution
- Outdoor proof materials and finishes
- Unrestricted WiFi/Bluetooth reception
- Direct view of status LEDs
- Redirected GPIO pins to the side
- Labeled GPIO pins
- Universal VESA/Wall mounting system
You know what's great about it apart from all that? They're going to release the full schematics and 3d model free, for anyone to download and use themselves once the campaign is done and finished. While that might sound like a nice touch, it was initially locked behind a funding stretch-goal at $75,000 but that was hit already.
So why are Cooler Master doing Kickstarter? According to them, it's only a small team of Pi enthusiasts doing this and they're doing it with community backing. Looking around, it seems a lot like the existing FLIRC case.
I'll admit, I am becoming something of a Raspberry Pi nut after grabbing mine as an early 32nd birthday present this month. Honestly it's getting to the stage where I feel like this picture is going to be me, as I pull it out the bag at a friends house with a "hey, want some Pi?" like some sort of fancy drug.
The Raspberry Pi 4 is just such a fantastic little device for so many uses, and yes plenty of gaming too through emulators, game streaming both local and cloud and more. Expect to read about me gushing over it more often.
Anyway, if you want you can check out the Cooler Master Pi Case 40 on Kickstarter. Seems like it's been a big success for them so far with tons of funding coming in. The Kickstarter ends on August 19.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
My Pi4 can run 720p streams with only a little coaxing in
config.txt. Haven't tried installing 0 A.D. on it yet, but unless I get the new 8 Gig RAM version, kind of worry if it'll eat the Pi for breakfast with only a 4Gig model.
Last edited by Solarwing on 26 Jul 2020 at 4:27 am UTC
Glad you finally noticed this. I posted about this on Twitter earlier in the week and nobody seemed to care. lolI came across it by chance. If people have tips, please always email them in.
Would be nice to see some pi focused gaming content on GOL.Well, we do now have a nice tag for it ;)
They're going to release the full schematics and 3d model free, for anyone to download and use themselves
but if its a quality case and cooler master don't want to make it part of their core line up hell if you have the cash why not.Not in the market for an RPi or case myself, so I admit I didn't read the Kickstarter pages and as such can only guess the images are of printed prototypes, but for "a premium enclosure", I'd expect the finished product to be injection moulded.
So thanks, I guess, for sharing the design and allow printing a case at home (for a mere 75k...), but apart from that, at this stage it doesn't look more professional than what "any" hobbyist with a 3D printer could create.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberrypi-4-cooling
and other link to another case/heatsink:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberrypi-4-coolipi
Last edited by drmoth on 26 Jul 2020 at 1:32 am UTC
ElectricPrism 26 Jul 2020
I like the VESA mount -- could make a good Client / Server Linux setup just mounted on the back of a monitor anywhere in the house.
I am big on Aluminum though and not Plastic, but it is cheap so idk looks interesting.
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