PS Vita Hardware Mod #3: Sound Activated LEDs
Sorry for the long wait but here is my third but not final PS Vita hardware mod. In the comments for my last mod I saw that a few of you didn’t want an LED mod. I was planning to do one anyway so here it is. For those of you that don’t want an LED mod I made my series out of who knows what, just for you. This series will probably continue on for a while, as long as PS Vita hardware mods keep coming about. I believe that the ones to come will be something you all will love. If any of you have mods that you want to suggest to me, you can PM me on /talk, where I am JayDog. I actually have 3 LED mods here on this post and I am pretty sure that none of have seen all three. Well anyway, this mod is from zakaiya, hope you enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: Any screw ups you make are 100% your fault and I nor zakaiya are to blame. Thank you and have a great day.
What you will need:
- Soldering iron + solder
- Multimeter
- 1206 LEDs with a forward voltage of 1.8-2.2V
- Electronic drill + a 3/32″ drill bit
- Super glue
- 30 gauge solid core wire
- Wire strippers
- Phillips PH00 screwdriver
- Vise grip (optional)
- Flathead screwdriver
Installing Rear leds
First, you have to choose which of these configurations you want. If you choose configuration #3, the middle hole is not necessary.
The next step is to take apart you vita, you can follow these instructions here for help. Once hat is done, you should have this.
At this point you have to drill hole(s) with your 3/32″ drill bit, based on the configuration you chose. To access point three, you will have to lift off the speakers. after drilling the holes, make sure that you clean away all excess material.
Get out your 30 gauge wire, vise grip and wire strippers. Cut out a good length of wire. Stick one end it into a hole that you drilled and bring the other end to a speaker prong. T o make sure that the wire is long enough, wrap the wire around that prong. You can cut away any extra wire. Now you know that you will have enough solder when it is time to solder. Repeat with all of the hole(s) once (two wires per hole).
You can use the vise grip like in the picture below or use your own method. Take the positive end of your LED and solder it to a wire end. Do the same with the negative end. Repeat with all of your LEDs. After that, do a stress test to make sure that the wires don’t rip out.
After everything is solder up, use your multimeter and make sure that the connection works.
Get out your super glue and flathead. Insert your LEDs with the flathead in a vertical position so that your flathead can rest on it straight up and down as in the below picture. Make sure that it is vertical! Do not use too much force or the LED will break. You will know that it is in because you will feel a small pop.
Remove the LED and put super glue into the hole. Reinsert the LED with the flat head and wait a few minutes, all the while holding the flathead in place. You can remove the flathead whenever you feel ready.
If you have a lot of wires already soldered to the top of the speaker prongs, you will have to solder these wires to the bottom. If not, it doesn’t matter. The reason that the LEDs will be sound activated is because they are soldered to the speaker prongs. They will only receive electrical current when the speaker receives electrical current. If you have too large of a volume of wires on one side of the prong, the sound nor LEDs will not work.
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Reassemble your Vita, and you’re done! Thank you to zakaiya for the info and pictures.
You can check out my other mods here and here, and read my other articles here. That’s all for now from me, The Jay Doctor. Follow on Twitter @The_Jay_Doctor.
Source: zakaiya on /talk
Really useless mod imo. Why would you put LED lights on the back pads if you never going to stare at the back of your VITA anyway? When you’re playing a game, you’re looking at the screen, not what’s behind the handheld.
Kinda useless imo.
What’s really useless is your opinion. This mod may not work for you, but someone else may want to do this exact mod. Watch what you say.
Nazar_ops Its not a useless mod.If you want to you can put the leds anywhere except buttons & touchscreens,& if someone wanted to have leds on their electronics they normaly would have to pay 45$ on avg. At certain online retailers like exotic pc & such.Furthermore it is obviously something some people would use to make their vita look cool in the dark,& possibly even to make buttons more visible in the dark.So if you dont want or need leds then thats on you,but to say its useless because you dont personally like it is to be a bit of a self centered *** esp. Considering the op took time out to post instructions,& several others like myself found it to be very useful.
its for selfies lol omg rby wololo
I suddenly felt bad after seeing that vita hardware mod 3 of 3 was the LED one(s).. but wait, the title was changed from “mod 3 of 3” to “mod # 3”.. so there is now a chance for “mod # 4”.. still crossing my fingers that it will be Katsu’s HDMI out mod..
😉
Wololo. Any update about the HDMI output from xmax katsu? I dont know if you keep contact with him. There hasnt been any news for weeks.
Do you think is real?
It is real. All you have to do is be calm, patient, & wait.
Well, regardless you would need hardware very similar to the USB video mod. In fact, you can buy the USB video mod, and reprogram the FPGA to output TDMI signal and then replace the usb port with a hdmi port and it would work.
Yifan Lu. I see, it seems a bit more complicated and a lot more expensive than i thought.
It looks cool but nothing useful
I would rather do the trigger & the power/volume button mods than this one.
can this also be applied to the front LED so as to add different color schemes other than the orignal blue? or maybe even three different ones (green, yellow, red) to the power source as a battery level indicator?
You would have to stick with the that color scheme for example blue,purple, green all take 3V minimum. The red,orange, yellow take 1.8V minimum so mixing them didnt work. I found out the hard way when I tried to mix blue and orange leds. ><
I see. would you be able to use the other schemes together if you had say a step-down regulator to switch between the two voltages?
Yeah that may most likely work but im gunna end up doing this to my 3G Vita
hi,
checkout my buildmess
psplinkvita build or try one
http://www.sendspace.com/file/m192o5
got some working but no tools work
boot271 in 6xx mode works booting from psplink3.0
into psplink2.0 tools
plus adding nethostfs
but c error as soon as i connect
make
provide me patches
and lets run it on the current exploit!
bytheway
i seriously need patches for the tools dont i ?
cheers
whazilla
make me a tools patches for build and runtime and INSTALL.ZIP
msys command generation for following tools:
pcterm
pspsh
ssh
telnet
wifi
qcma
qmca
prx tools
pc tools
and any prx menu u would like to test ?
sorry if this build i uploaded doesnt work for u right now
but its just something ive been busy with the few weeks ago
it doesnt install right away
needs a vsh reset
and only vitalink has installed so far …the other is from scratch without nethost
what if a vitamod could make us run psplink in vita mode ?
is there even kernell ?
cheers
or just a simple thing
Undiluted Platinum wifi flasher for latest stripped psp’s
anything that could me make use psplink is fine
Can not see the Images.
cant see the pic.
Will this work for a psp 3k? I’m curious to try but I’m a bit faint hearted when it comes to opening up stuff
one adress for a vitalink app
psvitalink.be
cheers
Stand by. We are working to solve the photo issues.
You should just use imgur for hosting purposes. 🙂
hmm… this really is enticing me
To the rookies who wants to discover their inner electric engineering skills… this can be a good way to start… though it really is dangerous to screw up…
but hey, no pain, no gain!
we’ll be expecting much more difficult mods…
so think about this like a ladder system or something that if you can’t do the simplest steps, you can’t do the harder ones! 🙂
Picture ?