The pi-top [3] + Raspberry Pi 4 (Franken [3])

Eirikur
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:25:49 +0000

I seem to have scored a couple of CM4 boards, so I bought a couple of the CM4 to Pi 3B adapters. Has anyone tried to build a Pi-Top with one of these setups yet? I’m pretty sure it will fit (maybe a little bit high, but within coping distance). Heat: It looks like the CM4 SOC metal chip lid will be hard against the green plastic bottom of the laptop. I don’t have any great ideas for this. I could cut a window in the bottom, but I don’t think that would be very effective. I’m not going to use this as a compute cluster, but… Hmm. How about a thin aluminum heat spreader like the Pi-400? It would have to thin, but maybe that would be a reasonable solution and keep the bottom of the laptop intact. I also have one of the aluminum Astro-Pi cases, that take Pi 3’s, so I am hoping the Waveshare adapters are good.