Smart Cooling HUD HAT for Raspberry Pi 3 & 4

As any good Pi Maker knows, the Raspberry Pi environment is certainly a fun one to play in, as Raspberry Pi Boards can be used for all kinds of different projects from home automation to custom computers, lending themselves well to both professional and hobbyist applications. However, unless you have some kind of display or status monitoring tools attached to a Pi, it’s often impossible to know precisely how it’s doing, and whether it’s overheating, throttling, standing by or working hard. This is why we always appreciate fantastic Pi HATs like the Smart Cooling HUD HAT for Raspberry Pi 3 & 4, which is specially designed to give Pi Makers more insight into how their Pi Boards are operating, while keeping it safe from overheating problems and operating at maximum effectiveness at all times.

The Raspberry Pi Smart Cooling HUD HAT is built to be compatible with both the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi 4 variants, and offers a handy OLED Heads-Up-Display, along with an active auto-adjusting cooling fan as well as some fun programmable RGB LEDs. This helps to ensure cool operations and a high level of efficiency even when the Pi needs to kick it into full gear for intensive computational tasks, allowing you to keep a close eye on vital parameters like CPU Usage, Hard Disk Space, RAM Utilisation and CPU Temperatures at all times – even when your Pi is running in standalone “headless” mode.

Typical Applications for the Raspberry Pi Smart Cooling HUD HAT:

Although the Smart Cooling HUD HAT for Raspberry Pi is certainly a wonder to behold, with fun programmable RGB LEDs that add an awesome level of stylish aesthetics to an already-awesome board, the true purpose of the HUD HAT is for functionality. And in addition to providing effective Pi Cooling to keep your Pi operating a high efficiency, this HAT offers live status parameters that are updated around every 10 seconds or so, while the fan even auto-adjusts to provide even better cooling when you Pi is running hot. These features, on top the relatively durable design and the clever way that this HAT doesn’t reserve any GPIO ports, makes it one of the best Cooling HATs that we’ve stocked for Raspberry Pi, and as long as you don’t need the extreme cooling of the The ICE Tower or similar type of cooling solution, this HAT may just be the ideal solution that you’ve been looking for.

Additional Resources:

• For more insights, information and helpful guides and code snippets, be sure to check out the official DFRobot Smart Cooling HAT Wiki Page.

As self-proclaimed “Robo-holics”, DFRobot is a company comprised of over 100 staff members, of which 30% are engineers who love to build robots. It was started in 2008 with the goal of embracing and promoting open-source hardware, with a core focus on Arduino, Raspberry Pi and their very own LattePanda development boards. Since then, DFRobot have manufactured over 1300 unique modules, sensors and components that all work together and complement each other, allowing users like us to enjoy a full spectrum of cutting edge robotics and electronics without having to pay premium prices.

With the primary goal of developing and manufacturing great quality products, while making them accessible to as many people as possible, DFRobot are rapidly becoming one of the most common-place brands in the world of open-source robotics and electronics. With more than 1300 products developed in-house, and an impressive range of different categories and specialisations, there are few brands in the world who can compete in terms of quality, accessibility and genuine innovation.