Raspberry Pi Case with cutout for heatsink

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This is a remix of the nice case design from ksamualsen. I basically just put a cutout for the heat sink that can be purchased from Adafruit. They provided the heat sink that comes with the Raspberry Pi at an additional nominal cost. The cutout has plenty of room to accommodate at least a 15mm x 15mm heatsink which was bought from Adafruit. I have a Waveshare night vision camera so I also included the case for the camera. I don't use the infrared light that comes with the camera as it gets too hot and I have multiple pi cases with multiple waveshare cameras so what I found works best for me is not to use the infrared lights that comes with the camera but to buy a separate external infrared light that will flood the whole room thus I don't have to worry about the heat that is in the camera case and also the power draw that the infrared light is drawing from the raspberry pi itself. Works quite well. If you use the infrared light from the waveshare camera, you can just use Tinkercad or your favorite CAD program to punch a hole in the backing of the camera housing to accommodate a heat sink if you are worried about the heat, but when I used the camera with the infrared, all of which was enclosed in the case and which I used to run it that way 24/7 for a month without any issues.