Pi5 Raspberry SBC

This is the standard config of cooling on the Pi5. I wanted more so I got myself a much better cooling system. Instead of one Al cooling arry, all of my IC's, not just the SOC are cooled making contact with a full cooling block of solid Al, on top of the block this is a high performace fan with ball bearings, not sleeve bearings which have a longer MTBF. The block alone with the contacts on the IC's is so effecient that on light loads the fan can even stop running.

Since the machine is running in the tropics that is a great achievement

The cooling system has space for m.2 2080 SSD controllers with multiple SSD's, which one other reason why I bought it. I want m.2 SSD speed instead of microSD speed (which is nice)

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Al Aluminium

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SEAR, a.k.a "𝐒imple and 𝐄fficient 𝐀daptation of Visual Geometric Transformers for 𝐑GB+Thermal 3D Reconstruction", is now available on arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18774v1).

Multimodal 3D reconstruction—especially combining RGB and thermal data—has long been a challenge due to the difficulty of aligning these distinct modalities. Our work introduces a novel fine-tuning strategy that adapts pretrained visual geometry transformers to handle RGB+Thermal (RGB-T) inputs efficiently. The result? State-of-the-art performance in RGB-T 3D reconstruction and camera pose estimation, even with a (very) small training dataset and under extreme conditions like low light or dense smoke.

Key highlights:
• 29%+ improvement in AUC@30 over existing methods
• Small training times and negligible inference overhead compared to RGB-only models
• New dataset with RGB-T sequences across diverse conditions
• Open-source code & models will be available at GitHub soon (https://github.com/Schindler-EPFL-Lab/SEAR)

If you’re working in computer vision, robotics, or multimodal sensing, SEAR offers a practical, efficient solution for integrating thermal and RGB data—opening doors for applications in search & rescue, industrial inspection, and autonomous navigation.

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