PSP Ring of Light

**StuiWooi** · November 13th, 2006, 19:37

Originally Posted by Apoklepz

I bet the regular battery wouldn't stand much with those two mods done to your PSP clocked at 333mhz playing emus...But it is very , very sweet to look at

Even if you had both mods done I find it doubtful that whatever your doing with your psp that you would even lose 5 minutes of battery time, LEDs require almost no current, especially when there small ones

Anyway yes its very very nice, Im planning to buy a cheap-o second hand psp and try my hand at sticking shiny lights various places...only i will use the vastly superior color of green!

Hooray for a degree (in progress) in electronic egineering

**That_PSP_Guy** · November 13th, 2006, 23:17

I too plan on doing this mod, if you could trace lines over a psp uncovered picture to show where you got your electrical supply from, would be awesome.

**chrono75** · November 13th, 2006, 23:48

Here's my problem with doing $#@! like this to my PSP... I only have one PSP!! These people doing these mods have quite a few PSPs if I'm not misteaken! And also, I thought wraggsters L and R buttom mod was so much cooler for some reason.

**psp411** · November 14th, 2006, 00:05

this is cool man.... another idea to mod out my psp.... im gonna try and make mine have a blinking design in it( in the works...)

**TacticalBread** · November 14th, 2006, 00:08

Wow, this is really nice. I wish I had soldering and electrionic knowledge now, so I could do stuff like this.

**Psyberjock** · November 14th, 2006, 01:17

Originally Posted by That_PSP_Guy

I too plan on doing this mod, if you could trace lines over a psp uncovered picture to show where you got your electrical supply from, would be awesome.

I'll put together some more details for you when I get home. I'm at work right now and I don't have access to my photos or photoshop. But I can tell you that I used the memory stick's led's resistor's left side and the left side of the green power led's resistor. The power led is the negative and the memory stick led is the positive. This part took a relatively short time. It was a little frustrating because they don't stay stuck very well, but a little hot glue will fix that. I'll discuss my materials and tools in just a second.

Originally Posted by Apoklepz

That is one sick mod...would be cool to have this one + the lights on the shoulder buttons...I bet the regular battery wouldn't stand much with those two mods done to your PSP clocked at 333mhz playing emus...But it is very , very sweet to look at.
Mad props, man...I bet it was a bitch to execute, too...but you pulled it off perfectly, so once again, Mad props.

Originally Posted by Briggzy11

That is really good. I can now imagine this PSP with the LED Triggers and analogue mod, mixed with the PSPTouchme and I bet somebody will do a custom camera, more mods the merrier

I really want to do the triggers and analog mod too, but after spending so much time working on this mod, I'm hesistant to do anything else. It was long and brain frying. I may go back and do more, I just need a break.

I have been thinking about the analog mod though. I think the, so far, typical spot is a little out of the way. I don't think I'd really be comfortable playing on an analog pad so far out of the reach of my normal playing position. If I come up with a remedy for this I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by wraggster

awesome mod, thanks for posting it here

i sent the news to Gizmodo.com and they posted it too

Thanks!

Originally Posted by 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?

Well, I actually didn't use a dremel tool on this. (My dremel tool is back in the States too) It's mostly soldering and scraping. Here's a quick run down of the tools and materials I used (if I forget something I'll update this post): soldering iron, solder, clear jewel CD case (for plastic circle), super small twisted insulated wire, hobby knife, awl (rapid wire channel scraping), double sided tape (sticking the circle to the psp), surface mount leds from an old cellphone, electric tape, hot glue gun and hot glue, small screwdrivers (flat and phillips for opening the psp), sandpaper (for dulling finger slicing edges of the inner metal umd tray (also dangerous to wires)), a whetstone (for frosting the newly formed circle), the original metal circle (as a pattern), and tweezers (for general grabbing and holding of very small things).

I think that's everything and most of their purposes. If there is one thing that I could say about modding the PSP as compared to the xbox and dreamcast is, "damn that's small." I probably would have benefitted from buying a maginifying glass attached to some clips, but I just couldn't be bothered. The only place that sells those is a 40 minute train ride away. Often I couldn't really see the precise solder I was trying to attach wire to, but I knew it was there and I tried to apply a bit more solder until I could see what I was working with. If you break anything while working on it, you have to use something of an equivilent level of technology (usually) to repair it. Radio Shack and such places just don't really carry the most modern surface mount peices that you'll find in a PSP. You need something that is designed to be small and compact, like a cellphone, that you can harvest parts from.

In retrospect I think I learned that even though the PSP is MUCH smaller electronically, and that brings many difficulties, it is still the same. It has circuit boards, transistors, resistors, etc, and they're all pretty durable. If you have ever modded something before, don't be afraid of modding your PSP. If you're just starting out on modding you have a couple of choices: practice on some old systems first, or get ready for a really big learning curve. If you know someone who is good at soldering or even modding ask them to look over your shoulder or teach you a few basics.

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I think that should answer a lot of questions and maybe raise a few more. Thanks for all the comments and compliments. They're encouraging and may get me to do a couple more mods.

Thanks!