Every expression he makes is unique in its hollow sadness. It radiates an aura of malaise and melancholy, as if realizing that it is standing on the tracks and decides it no longer cares. I'm not sure if this is more of a cry for help or a desperate request to be put out of its misery.

... Got a print file?

This is both hilarious and far too close to home.

You know, I was wondering how things could possibly get worse.

Oh my god it's perfect

"Ah," I say to myself, seeing the AI-made ad. "Either they have no money, or this is a scam."

www.thingiverse.com/thing:6796838

If somebody has the same issue, a 3D printer, AND a GoPro 8, I uploaded the files to Thingiverse here. Included is the FreeCAD file, if somebody wants to tinker with it to make it fit other models.

You can't see it, but the design has vent holes on the left side under the battery box, forcing the air from the fan over the entire screen and out the side, ensuring maximum contact with the stream of cool air.

Finally, I printed and assembled a third, before modelling a 2mm thick printed rectangle that I melted holes in, before finally welding them on over the battery enclosures with my soldering iron. A little messy? Maybe, but they work.

These are basically the final versions of the design, after a lot of work with the calipers and carefully adjusting prototypes through printed iterations.

My solution? Design a simple 3D printed case for the camera, mount 5V fans to the doors, and salvage disposable vapes for batteries and charging circuits. Bam, the GoPro runs cooler than ever. And it only took hours in CAD and many printed iterations. But, hey, it works.

I've been using my GoPro's to film things where a larger film camera is inconvenient, or when I need alternative points of view or a camera that's compact and convenient. 1 messes with external upgrades and cases, 2 is awkward and inconvenient, and 3 takes micromanagement to even work.

3) Swap the battery every five to ten minutes
You can quickly dump a lot of thermal energy out of the camera by swapping the hot battery out for a much cooler one. But that needs multiple batteries, and you have a downtime of thirty seconds every five to ten minutes. Not ideal.

2) Remove battery, remove door, run external power
The lithium battery is a big source of heat for the camera, and acts as a thermal bank. The heat has nowhere to go and just builds inside the camera. Battery gone and door open, the metal interior becomes one big heatsink. This is... awkward.

So, what's that solution?

1) Attach external heatsinks
The Pi has a number of heatsinks that have adhesive thermal pads on them. You could, potentially, take a number of these and stick them to the camera. Thermals solved, but at the price of not being able to attach anything to the camera.

HOWEVER, this is a very big problem, if, say... you need to film in Linear at 60fps in a static position, running off the internal battery. Set like that, the camera overheats and shuts down in 15 minutes or so. Not ideal, especially when you're trying to film something longer than that.

Not even irrational in my case, I'm worried about the lithium batteries I packed shorting and exploding, despite the fact that I packaged them individually.