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I installed libreelec on my Raspberry Pi 4 the first day I had it. The CPU immediately started (while playing 1080p video) to heat a lot to the point it stalled. Since I haded a motherboard chipset heatsink that I had laying around on the CPU it worked flowlessly. (I keep it without any case)

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This was exactly my intended use case - as a gift for relatives - the problem I've had is that I need it enclosed to prevent tiny little fingers from getting hurt/destroying the thing. Tried soak testing it one night and experienced the same thing :/

Currently I'm hoping that I can modify the case this weekend to fulfill my needs.

As something intended to be used by kids to learn about computing I do wonder how many are going to get hurt fingers from the heat output by accidentally maxing the cpu and/or touching the USB ports, etc.

> As something intended to be used by kids to learn about computing I do wonder how many are going to get hurt fingers from the heat output by accidentally maxing the cpu and/or touching the USB ports, etc.

Sounds like one of the unexpected lessons will be heat dissipation :)

Probably outside of the realm of weekend hacking, but I wonder if something like this would work for you: https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case

Best of luck!

Hadn't come across the case. I'll give it a go if my DIY attempts dont work (or are crap) :D

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