That project was pretty great but i wanted to take it to the next level and add the ability to only turn the fan on when needed by monitoring the core temperature.
Raspberry pi 3 b fan control.
A heat sink is enough for most raspberry pi 3 applications and a fan is not required.
An overclocked raspberry pi should use a fan.
How to wire a cooling fan on a raspberry pi 3.
On kodi if you do not have an mpeg 2 license key then you might get a thermometer icon which indicates the need for either a license or a fan.
The raspberry pi was originally created to teach kids software development so raspbian comes with full python support.
The raspberry pi 3 s cpu is spec d to run between 40 c to 85 c.
This way a noisy fan isn t running all the time.
Here i show how to overclock a pi 3b and steadily take the cpu speed as.
There are many ways to get the code onto the rpi.
Raspberry pi 3 model b.
A raspberry pi enthusiast jeff geerling released a pretty cool video showing how to add a fan to the raspberry pi to help keep the temperature under control.
I don t know why every video i found on this either was 5 minutes long and never actually plugged the fan into.