3D printed ice tower cooler case with Oled. Raspberry Pi 3B+, Pi 4B. 52Pi GeeePi.

[Music] okay so i've just been sent a new case from 52 pi and the cool thing about this is it comes with an ice tower cooler like the one i use on my main pie and so i'm going to put my four gig pie for inside it let's have a look at what's in the box so it comes with this to tighten up the bolts ice tower coolers in here uh case and also a power adapter which is five volt three amp but it also has a switch on it and it's usb-c for the pi 4. okay so loads of stuff in here instructions got some sort of double-sided pad some cabling some gpio pin re-routing one of these which is interesting because i've just done a video on this which is usbc to micro usb because this case works with the pi 3 as well as the pi 4 what looks like i think a couple of displays in there and four of these acrylics and this very nice looking 3d printed case there's three bolts in here already it looks like there should be a fourth one but i'll find out about that later but yeah it feels nice and solid and i've got the ice tower cooler as well which is where you need to start off because you need the thermal pad first of all this is the 52 pi cooler that fits on the cpu and you can see it's got a fan already attached i will use a fan in this one although my other case i don't use it and the cooling properties are still excellent but i want to see what the lights look like in this case i may end up taking the fan back off if the cooling is still good enough so it says install the thermal pad i've got three of them here just pop that on there so i've peeled off the clear bit of the thermal pad i need to attach the gpio pins now and this is so you've still got access to the gpio pins when it's inside the case there you go nice tight fit so you've got to assemble all these bits together and then pop it in the case so let's put it this way around so you can see that there's the little screw mounts here which line up with the holes on the pi that's not going to be easy to get in is it i guess that's why you got this tool okay so not a lot of room for the screwdriver in there but it works these aren't quite as easy to get in if you've got big hands okay so it's actually easier without these gpio pins on because they'll be easy enough to fit in so i'm going to take them off again okay that's those four in gpo pins can go back on actually i'm going to fit the ice tower cooler first it's going to be easier without the gpi pins okay so pop this in now pop these screws into place i could pop this back on now yeah and that goes in much easier when it's in the case because obviously it's all held in place so it looks like the display goes in this way around with the gpio pins at the top and it says to fix the display and with tape i'm guessing i use this it does seem to secure it in place all right and i've matched these cables up as close as i can i haven't got a red so i've used orange for red but the fan cable is too short so i'm going to have to rotate the fan because i need to get those two pins this red and black on the front here and it's just it possibly would go a stretch but i'm just going to rotate this fan around 90 degrees so i can get this cable a bit closer to the gpio pins okay that's the last screw in so now this bit has got a bit more room through here and that's the power for the fan has just been attached okay so i had to take the display off to get these pins in because it's super tight in there but i put it back in again as you can see and it says you can fix the other fan to the acrylic panel if you want but i'm not going to bother so before i put it back together i'm just going to plug in the power i want to test that i've got the display on the right rather than have to do that over again so let's plug it in and i'm just going to give it a test before i put the side panels on let's get keyboard in here okay so i've got no display from the panel so far i'm sure everything's in place yeah orange green gray and then a space then black yeah everything's all wired up all right but i haven't got any display so i'm going to try that and see what code i need to put in let's switch into screen capture okay so it's four days later frustratingly the instructions were wrong on the website so the ones in the back of the book i guess this may change they've only just recently come out the wiring diagram is correct so i'll show you a close-up of that and i'm all wired in and i've tucked in the display you can see in the top there i haven't used hot glue but obviously hot glue will be nicer but i've tucked all this up around the top here i've decided to use the raspi key and the reason for that is because it's very easy to take out and put in an sd card on the other hand is actually pretty hard to take out and in it's easy with a set of tweezers so you can see i've taken it out and pop it back in with tweezers but with my fingers they're just way too big and i can't get it in and out on its own the other option would be to put a bit of sellotape on the sd card so that you can pull it out straight away but the raspi key definitely lends itself to this build you can see it fits in nicely and it's very easy to put in and take out and it's a bit faster than most sd cards as you'll find out on my separate raspi key video other than that though i was using usb boot with this samsung bar and obviously you've got no issues there but i'm going to boot this up from the raspi key because i put a fresh copy of raspberry pi os on here to show you the installation but before that i need to put these panels on did make me laugh a comment on amazon hello i received the kit and i see that the side acrylic panels are not transparent as in the images on your page rather they are of a white color could someone tell me why i received the product that way thank you they haven't answered yet but i can answer basically it's a protective cover and i know this because i've had something similar to it before i find if you get the corner of a screwdriver uh you can there you go just grab the peel grab the edge and just peel it down and obviously let's do it both sides and then they'll be lovely and clear there you go i have actually done exactly the same and left them on on my cluster case in the past i hadn't realized they came off and i think i might have done the one for the pi 3 because this one's got bigger cut outs so i think this is probably the one to use these panels add little acrylic feet to the bottom so you can see they come down past the bottom of the case there you go so that's both sides on it is a very nice looking case okay so let's switch on and you see the nice way that the lights reflect through the cooler i never spin it around you can see the fan does look really nice at this and even the edges kind of light up as well so the instructions take you to this site and you have to search for the sku so okay dash 0595 and you can see the product comes up but this method didn't work for me um and uh so the new link i've got is this one here and i'll put it in the description so i've copied it here so it more relates to just the screen really so let's go to that and i'll also put all the code there as well so ctrl alt t to open a terminal and let's copy this in now i thought the first bit might be enabling i2c but it doesn't seem to enable it um so we'll do that in raspi config in a minute i'll just see if it does exactly the same as it did before so let's just copy each line in and we'll say yes to that and the next bit and yes to that but really in the guide if we look on the left-hand side it directs you to download this code but then it gets you to download it here anyway so i don't quite know what this bit is about let's copy the next bit and paste that in and the next part and this sudo h pip3 install now this bit i put in extra this bit with the lines because this is what happened when i tried it so if i copy this and paste this in i've also put this line in because this tests the gpio pins there you go so you can see could not open file uh i got this information from this link and again i'll put this in the description the diylife.com uh it's how to add it to bullseye i'm using buster the older version just because at the moment it is more reliable more compatible but there is a guide how to install on bullseye but it is a slightly different screen so when i tried it it didn't work for me but i got this tip here the i2c detect about the gpio pins so now what we need to do is sudo raspi dash config and just enable those go down to interface go down to i2c and yes and okay i think that's all you need to do i don't think you need to reboot so let's try that line again yeah this is what the guide the diy life guide pointed me to so this is showing that it's correctly connected so now we can try this bit of code and paste that example in so if i spin this around you can see the display is off at the moment but if i now press return you can see it's coming on with this spinning block which is pretty cool but it also comes with a load more demos don't worry about the scan lines that you can see you don't see those with the naked eye here's the animated gif one again ignore the scan lines you don't see them this is bounce this is carousel you can see it's got an analog clock and the date and various different things come along this is chroma scrolling pixel art probably one of my favorite ones space invaders very good for a retropie build there are more but i figured i'd end in jet set willie and as you can see there's loads more in there as well i couldn't find one that showed the temperature which would be particularly nice but i did find in this article up here so the one that i've linked from the diy life let's just put that in the browser yeah the oled stats display was rather nice so ip address cpu usage temperature memory disk usage and this shows how to install it but again in bullseye i think there's a version for buster but i'm not sure i think the screen is slightly different so i'm not sure if i actually work so i'll probably have a go at it at some point now i've got the screen up and running yeah loads of detailed information in there and there's also a way of getting it to start up on boots so rather than have to launch it separately uh it is yeah automating the script to run on startup so that's worth having a look at but thanks very much to 52pi for sending me this rather cool case it's really nice to have another ice tower cooler i probably will end up using it silent which is a shame because it means you lose the led lights but i do like a silent pi and the cooling is so good on this anyway and just released there is another version of this the k0612 which is a mini tower nas and so if we scroll down we can see it a bit closer inside you've got this little usb 3 adapter and there is a drive is it an m.2 yeah so an m.2280 drive that can go in there as well yeah very very nice okay i hope all this helps thanks 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Published: Wed Nov 24 2021