The weather has lately been swinging in between unrelenting rain and insane heat, completely destroying my schedule and throwing a wrench in my progress.

Also likely to destroy all the components in the project, I've begun integrating watercooling into the deck. The components were purchased 5 years ago with the aim to push the limits of a variable power supply DSP5020. Hoping to use it to charge an unfinished electric skateboard project.

Most definitely completely unnecessary but its going in regardless! I imagine the pump will only have to run sporadically as the water has a high specific heat. Hopefully this should cut down on power usage while still keeping the processor below, 80 deg, its throttle temp. 

I was quite surprised how hot the pi got during boot and software updates. I'll be glad for some low noise cooling.

Some haphazard splines later and the mounting points are joined to the copper water cooling block / heat exchanger.

The fit is very snug. The posts for the pi's mounting holes are slightly too short. The hope is that the pressure from the flex of the printed bracket will hold the cooling block firmly against the pi's SoC.

Files for the bracket available on Thingiverse and Thangs.

Next to do is the pump and radiator mounting.