The MagPi - February 2020

with] the magazine was the obvious choice. The
idea of a gift, and the idea of having something
this simple to recreate came hand in hand.”
This, in turn, led to the idea of making it a
one-piece stand that was easy to cover-mount on
the magazine, and easy for readers to reproduce
with a 3D printer.

Made to measure
Alex began playing around with lengths and
taking a lot of measurements of numerous
Raspberry Pi 4 boards to determine the correct
width for the slots (silicon can vary by a fraction
of a millimetre). Eventually, the final design
came to life.
The stand has small indentations on one
side, which guide around the four Power over

Ethernet (PoE) pins on one side of Raspberry

Pi 4. “I was keen on making it as fool-proof as

possible,” explains Alex, “and adding the PoE

silhouette, I feel, makes it pretty obvious how

you should use it.”

Alex says if you place a single Raspberry Pi in

the middle slot, you’ll be surprised how cool

your Raspberry Pi 4 runs. You can also build a

small cluster with three perfectly cool Raspberry

Pi boards.

Instructions printed

on the stand itself

indicate which way

Raspberry Pi slots in

You’ll be surprised how cool

your Raspberry Pi 4 runs

For optimal performance, place your

Raspberry Pi 4 upright in the stand

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