So, after getting the fan hooked up to the Pi, which required that I remove the IR sensor because they share the ground pin on the GPIO, and I wanted to make sure the fan would be a viable option, before I hacked anything together.

I decided to splice together two jumper wires, to make a 3 into 1 ground cable, this would turn my GPIO ground into 3, giving me an extra one for later :D

I'm starting to wish I would have bought the multi-color pack of jumpers <.<

Wire Crazyness! Glad there is really only 4 connections to the GPIO :P...

 

 I cleaned it up a bit, but need to shorten some of these I think.

Added a fan to my RPi last night... Was looking on fourms, and saw that ppl had issues when the temp got over 52*C ... so I decided to check mine... it was at 60.5.... decided I should order a fan. I already have heatsincs so I decided to try out one I have here, to see how good my results would really be, before spending any $$.

So I grabbed an old broken laptop, janked a fan from it, and put in on my Pi... the results are amazing... 29.3*C under load.