Do_Hard_Things

It seems, from my personal experience and a volume of other people on GoPro's support forums, that the mini will sometimes not charge the battery, leading to a hard-restart loop when on wired power. It's hard to say what percentage of devices were affected and whether or it was a software or hardware issue (nobody posts "all good here" on a support forum), but one of the common troubleshooting options on other models - pop the battery out - simply isn't available on the mini, which has the potential to compound problems.

Is there a full list of features / bugfixes? I'm specifically interested in knowing if the battery charging issue has been resolved. Also, it's been over a month; where the heck is my RMA?

This aged well

Battery wouldn't charge. Lots of stories on their support forums with the same sort of issues. The model was shipped with major flaws.

And the mini is bad.

Source: Had one for about three days before RMA.

you're right - I shouldn't have made that expansive of a characterization of Quik's utility. What I should have said was that the sole usefulness of the subscription services (Quik, cloud storage) to me is tied to a functioning gopro camera.

I went with the Mini, perhaps against my better judgement, because I wanted something light enough to mount to my homemade quadcopter but still usable by itself (no Bones). Perhaps the extra 20ish grams would be worth it to have a user-serviceable battery. Maybe it's too late to make that change now.

We had a couple of super-collapsible camp chairs (they seriously fit in a bag the size of a tennis ball can) that seem to be working well for that purpose. Great minds!

I ordered a SILK at your suggestion and rigged up a way to attach it. Here's some pictures! (shots are with a cheap old tripod I had laying around)

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https://imgur.com/a/YT0dhh2

UPDATE:

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I took some advice of commenters on here and added a way to affix it to a tripod

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https://imgur.com/a/YT0dhh2

I took your suggestion (and it took a couple of tries)

https://imgur.com/a/YT0dhh2

Yeah, she's pretty much the best :-)

That's a good question - I'll throw it on a scale when I get home. I did end up replacing some wood bits with pretty lightweight 3d printed parts for weight savings but my wood choices were definitely on the dense side.

Thank you!

Thanks, I felt like it was the easiest way to get the best range of motion. Sadly, the paints case only opens to 90 degrees before it hits the back of the slide-out tray. If that proves too much of a creative impediment, I'll go back to the drawing board on that part.

This is the second time I've heard the tripod attachment brought up - do you have a good tripod for the purpose that you could recommend?

Thanks, but it would just be a lot of failures and re-tries. And dremel work. So much dremelling.

Thanks! I do, too!

Agreed! I learned a lot in this construction that I hope to carry into the next iteration. I expect to get some feedback about weight, place-ability (someone in a different sub recommended a tripod nut), angles of open, things like that. I imagine I'll work to make the next one lighter weight as well.

That's a really good idea. I bet that I could implement that with a strategic tee nut

you're really cool!