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docs: add Raspberry Pi cooling retrofit guide - #240

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Sustained capture and background video processing can overheat an enclosed Raspberry Pi. This adds an optional fan and copper-heatsink installation guide with two contributor photographs, a temperature/throttling logging procedure, and links from the hardware assembly page and documentation navigation.

The guide reports the observed thermal results and their limits: the fan-only run collected 795 samples over approximately 26.5 minutes with a maximum of 58.4 °C and no observed undervoltage/throttling flags, but its finalizer timed out. A later short test after the heatsink was fitted reached 58.9 °C without active throttling. Neither is presented as a controlled before/after benchmark or proof of end-to-end recording reliability. The document also explains checking decoded frames, timestamps and sensor continuity after thermal improvements.

No capture defaults, firmware thermal limits, required BOM, or device deployments change.

Validation:

  • Built the documentation with upstream huggingface/doc-builder at 5934b32ef7dd77994dd581e86280f711899412c8; confirmed both image assets are copied into the output.
  • Checked navigation, relative image links and git diff --check.
  • Verified the supplied photographs contain no EXIF metadata and preserved their original pixels and colour profiles.

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