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Watch a GoPro Hero 5 taken apart piece by piece (then put together again)

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When you were a kid, you may have toyed around with taking things apart. Then, putting them back together again. For me, more often than not, the put-back-together part ended with some spare parts. The lack of which did not seem to impact the assembled piece though.

Watch the GoPro Hero 5 undergoing the same procedure.  JerryRigEverything takes a brand new GoPro Hero 5 apart. Usually, those videos are made so you can learn how to replace damaged parts, but sadly, GoPro does not sell spare parts for the Hero5. You’d need another dead Hero 5 for savaging the parts. Who knows, maybe GoPro will end up selling parts, or you can Frankenstein 2 dead GoPros into a live one.

 

But even if you are not planning to self repair your GoPro Hero 5, that movie shows some of the tough engineering involved with designing a good action camera.

As for the repair process, here are some interesting points:

  • It was kinda disappointing that you cannot swap the screen. You’d have to replace the entire housing part that holds the LCDs.
  • It was also kinda disappointing that the build’s seal can not survive a re-assembly. It uses some heavy-duty glues rather than rubber bands and O-rings.

[GoPro 5 Teardown | JerryRigEverything ]

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Udi Tirosh is the Founder and Editor in Chief of DIYPhotography, he is also a photographer, a relentless entrepreneur, a prolific inventor and a dad, not necessarily in that order

  • Ahmad Hssn you might find this interesting

    • If this video is true, then gopros cannot be fixed due to the adhesive issue and the difficulty of assembling it as a brand new one.
      If we knew more about the kind of adhesives gopros use, we might know how to remove them and then apply the same adhesive to assemble them back.

    • You’re right

    • They should make a toy out of the camera and name it gocube. :)

  • Dan Griffiths

    Thanks for the video! Do you think the GoPro could work disassembled? I want to take it apart, remove the lens from the board… I then want to insert the pieces of the GoPro in a 3d printed housing… I want the sensor to write the microSD card reader. I want to be able to connect to the camera via WiFi. I want a working power button. I don’t want the LCD screen, lens or case. Thoughts?

    • Tibor Makai

      I would like to know as well, if that lens is removable. I would like to use it, with a microscope. The top lens part, looks like it is a different color, black and not gray, like the rest of the lens housing. I’m wondering, what is it under that orange rubber o ring?

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