Custom Paperweight - HPC Heat Sinks

1st official release of this paperweight prototype made 18 months ago for a special occasion (my colleagues at Exaion will recognize it)

After several trials and failures, the final version seems quite successful (many thanks to Emmanuel RIVET for his patience and the quality of his engraving work)

No laser engraving on copper and a CNC-machined QR code is not readable by a smartphone. Hence the mix of both.

The raw material? It seemed nicer to me to reuse these heat sinks from out-of-service HPC blades (IBM iDataPlex) rather than putting the motherboard in WEEE waste and the heat sink in the scrap bin (it would certainly never have reached the recycling center…).

An original and unique “goodies” idea

Also possible with an aluminum heat sink.

Once again, thank you Laurent BERNOU-MAZARS for giving me these opportunities to valorize all our treasures, at Exaion when they work or at ChybzArt when they are broken (it’s been 6 years today)

Emerson BAGUET, I would love a photo of yours in action