Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler – Heatsink with Fan

Heat and electronics has never worked well together, and tinkerers will often go to high lengths to protect their precious DIY projects from losing their magical smoke by overheating. The Raspberry Pi 5 board is no exception. This Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler combines both the active and passive cooling methods with an aluminium heatsink and a powerful inbuilt cooling fan.

While many heatsinks are often used in conjunction with a fan blowing over and through the fins, this large heatsink is shaped around a 3010 blower fan. The fan directly propels air onto your CPU with the fins of the heatsink directing the airflow across your entire dev board for maximum effect. Furthermore, this aluminium heatsink and fan are designed to fit snugly onto your Raspberry Pi 5, allowing for access to important ports and interfaces. This is an important feature since Raspberry Pi boards and other development boards or drivers are typically kept within an enclosure. Enclosures, however, leave little room for a fan or other type of active cooler, meaning that these heatsinks need to be capable of offering effective cooling without any further additions.

If you love to push your boards and electronics components to the max, then this Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler  is the heavy-duty and very affordable choice for keeping your electronics protected from overheating.

Please Note: The cooling fan provided with this heatsink will require a 5V supply to operate, which is found on the Pi 5 itself using the 4-pin header.

The primary aim of The Raspberry Pi Foundation is to enable people from all walks of life to understand, learn and develop our digital world with ideas that actually matter to them. Their single-board computers are designed with an open-source style, while being both easy to use and versatile. This allows people to build their own systems to cater to unique problems within their environment, while allowing them to share with and learn from others who are building similar types of systems – growing and developing the open-source movement in every step of the way.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation also takes their initiative a step further by building accessories like cameras, control interfaces and other products that can be seamlessly integrated into projects, made with high quality components but without the unnecessary frills that many brands choose to add on for “extra value”. This “no frills” approach makes their products more affordable while catering to consumers throughout the world, regardless of their financial condition. In doing so, people in almost any situation can use these products to improve their lives, better the world around them, and help develop both their local communities, as well as online communities of Makers.

Finally, like the cherry (or perhaps raspberry) on top of an already-great Sundae, The Raspberry Pi Foundation utilises the profits that they make to sponsor and host outreach and education efforts, with the intent to help people by making computing and digital development more accessible. They train educators and offer free resources online for people to learn from, giving consumers the power to change the world around them, and ultimately do their small part in developing the ever-expanding digital world too.