PSP Ring of Light

[gotmilk0112]

holy crap! thats weird!

[hanky]

That mod looks awesome dude! Nice work. I bet it would look really good with my Logitech case skin.

Pic of my PSP Case w/custom skin

Another Pic

[S34MU5]

Cool. ive seen this mod before but it takes away the PSP logo. and has dragons etc

[GobboFett]

Wow, that's very cool. Good job dude! Quick question, what powers the LED? I'm guessing the PSP being on powers it or does it have it's own power source?

[PSPages]

Hat's off to you mate, that looks incredible.

I would never atempt anything like that with mine. Too scared and just too crap at soldering

I often wondered though. Does adding LED's reduce the overall battery life of the PSP? I'm guessing it would but not sure how much of a difference.

[eLAy12]

great project. Job well done. I thought about putting lights on my psp too but i want an on off switch...hehe...sorry...

great job anyway!

[Psyberjock]

As far as battery life goes, I haven't done any kind of testing yet. I can only assume that this mod will suck 4 times as much as the power led since it uses comparable leds attached to the same circuit. Now if you think about how much of your overall batter life goes to the power led, you'll probably think its pretty insignificant. I do, so I don't mind applying the mod.

If I lose 5 minutes of playing time in order to run 4 more leds, I think that's worth it. I typically have my psp plugged in or only play for short amounts of time anyway (on the train for example).

As far as a switch goes, it would be pretty easy to interrupt the circuit with a switch, but I'd be more worried about the added switch to the outside of the case. I suppose if I attached it to the inside of the UMD drive that would be ok, where the TA-82s have their little idenifying mark for example. That could be doable and out of the way. But, it's too late for me, I'm happy and done and happy about being done. =) Thanks for the idea though.

Concerning the other UMD tray mods, I was actually unaware of them until your comment. I looked up one with an xbox jewel attached and it's pretty sweet to see the umd spinning, and with only two leds it would have been much easier to set up. But again, unfortunately I'm already done. At least this way I can keep the asthetic of the original Sony style case with just a slight modification to accent the ring. With the leds turned off (in other words, the PSP turned off) the white opaque ring looks very similar to the original silver ring. (and doesn't cross brand names)

Thanks for the info!

[ACID]

Now thats what i call kick a**. Cool.

[Cloudhunter]

Well, i'm scared about all mods, and have no soldering experience. But even I'M tempted to mod my psp because its so cool

Cloudhunter

[CandieC]

Man this is so great, i wish you would have did a wip, i would love to do this, my soldiering skills are top notch but my dremel skills are so/so , is this simalure to lets say cutting a window in the xbox / pc only on a tiny scale?