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Does a Case fan and heatsink cool down a Raspberry PI?

With a heatsink, case fan and open case: With a load averages of: load average: 0.26, 0.12, 0.20 Load average is the average cpu load over 1 minute, 5 minute and 15 minutes The temperature was: vcgencmd measure_temp temp=33.6’C and cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 34076 # 34.07’C With a heatsink and open case (No case fan): With […]

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Mount external hd permanently on raspberry pi

The best tutorial to use for mounting an external Hard Drive permanently on your rspberry pi is on raspberrypi.org documentation List all the disk partitions sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL Identify the name of the disk partition (eg. sda1) Install the relevant storage driver for your FSTYPE (eg. exfat-fuse or ntfs-3g) – usually already install on […]

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Raspberry Pi dedicated bitcoin node with Ubuntu ARM Instructions

In this post, a bitcoin node is setup with a raspberry pi and Ubuntu OS. Requirements Raspberry Pi with 4Gb or more External hardrive 500Gb 1 TB SD card reader Update Feb 2022: Best to Use a 1TB Harddrive as the blockchain has grown in size Installing Ubuntu Server Use these instructions to Install ubuntu […]