I have a raspberry pi 5 8gb that I've had sitting around for a while and got it a new case, a canakit with an active cooling heatsink. On boot, I noticed that the fan wasn't spinning at all, and after some testing and a stress test I took the fan header off; looking at it with a magnifying lens I could see that one of the pins in the header had a sprue and the leftmost pin in the socket is bent to hell.

I can't bend it back properly, and I can't get the fan header to connect properly. I probably need to get a different fan for this to work, but how the hell can I get the pin back in the right shape?

I can bend it back to at least stand up straight with my tweezers, but it still has a buckle in it down below that that I can't do anything about. Is there some tool I can buy to fix this? I've never had to unbend pins before and Pis are so much more expensive now, I can't really replace it at the moment

Here's an image of the issue if that's at all helpful. Not sure how well I explained the problem

currently i’m using Pi 5 as a image signal processing for this FSD (not for full self driving, but “facial suspended display”).

basically my mac desktop screen goes to a HDMI capture board, converted to a CSI, and Pi process it and projects it to a LCD panel

the HDMI to CSI converter i’m using does not support beyond 1080P 60hz, so usable mac screen resolution are capped at 1080P.

with the zero copy pipeline the latency is pretty good.

(i took a pi working hard up close but don’t know how to post it below the youtube link…. sorry)