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October 2, 2009

PS3 Slim laptop

Console hacker extraordinaire Benjamin J. Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) built this one-off PS3 Slim laptop for portable gaming without compromise. Along with the PS3 Slim, Ben incorporated a Gateway 1775W widescreen LCD display and had a little extra room left over for cable storage.

[thanks, Thomas!]

July 24, 2009

Workbench NES system

I don't know how much work Miltron is going to get done in his shop, now that he's built and installed this nifty little game system on his bench. It's built using a NoaC (NES on a Chip) and a cannibalized PSOne LCD screen. Yet another use for The Maker's Notebook -- as a game controller wrist-rest.

DIY Workbench playable NES [Sent by Hector of Make:en Español. Thanks, Hector!]

November 10, 2008

Use a Nintendo SNES controller on a Sony PSP!

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Use a Nintendo SNES controller on a Sony PSP! via Hacked Gadgets. The Foo writes...

Some time ago I was contacted by a nice guy in the US. He asked me wether I would be interested in building a psp mod for his partner. She has limited use of one of her hands and as such cant use a psp, but she can however use a SNES controller perfectly (I've seen it, its quite a talent). So he asked if I would be able to add a SNES controller to a PSP for her. Well at long last here it is.

August 23, 2007

Make a USB power/charger from a wall wart

A user on the Hacked Gadgets Forum posted this simple conversion of a common wall-wart into a USB power supply/device charger. He used the power adapter from an old Iomega drive and a few common components. I've seen several versions of these floating around. Easy to make. Nice to have around.

DIY Wall-Wart USB Power Supply - Link

June 27, 2007

Downgrader for PSP v3.50 firmware

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There hasn't been a lot to write about on the PSP homebrew and modding front for a bit, but this downgrader is pretty exciting. Now you can downgrade (which is like an upgrade) any PSP to play your own games and more...

This downgrader is for v3.50 firmware, and includes a port of the Homebrew ENabler (HEN) for firmware 3.50. It will automatically detect all known PSP motherboard types, and do the appropriate steps to ensure a safe downgrade.

To use this downgrader, you will need the following:

A PSP, upgraded to the official Sony v3.50 firmware. You should also set your language settings to "English".
A legal Lumines UMD, either the EU (ULES00043) or US (ULUS10002) version. The original, Platinum, or Greatest Hits versions are all fine. Support for the Japanese version will come soon.
Sufficient intelligence and english language skills to be able to carefully and throroughly read the instructions.
It would also help if you've previously run the Illuminati Hello World, so that you're familiar with how to run the Illuminati exploit.

N00bz! - Downgrader for PSP v3.50 firmware - Link.

March 5, 2007

uClinux on the PSP

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Chris got linux on his PSP, here's the page with downloads and more--

Linux on the PSP! Currently supports the video hardware, the headphone jack serial port, the IR port, and has support for the Palm 3169WW infrared keyboard. Check it out for pretty pictures of it running.

uClinux on the PSP - Link.

Related:

PSP archives @ MAKE - Link.

January 15, 2007

uClinux on the PSP

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Luke writes in with some linux action to tinker with for PSPs... -

"The guys on this project have managed to boot a version of uClinux on the PSP. Status, Source, instructions and a variety of information is on the page. " - Link.

From the site:
Depending on your perspective, maybe a lot, maybe nothing. It has minimal hardware support (the headphone jack serial port has a TTY driver, and, well, thats it really. Unless you count the CPU and the RAM.)

It boots. It mounts a root filesystem that is linked in with the kernel code. It loads an interactive shell and has a very minimal userland. At the moment, every binary is statically linked.

This is mainly a proof-of-concept. Hopefully now more people will help, and we can write device drivers for all the remaining hardware thats on this nifty little handheld.

Related:

PSP archives, hacks, mods and more @ MAKE - Link.

October 11, 2006

HOW TO - Make an analog control stick for your Sony PSP

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Mod god Ben Heck has a great how-to on adding an analog joystick to a PSP, he writes - "History is littered with game systems using far-too-stubby of controller sticks. From the Intellivision's "disc of doom," to Coleco's "shaft of stiffness" (quiet, you!), and even now, in this high-tech age, the Sony PSP's "sliding nub of death." It's unfortunate that the PSP is saddled with that thing -- it's a pretty slick system otherwise, with a library of almost 5 games! (Please don't key our cars.) Well what if you could augment that sliding nub with something more useful, like an actual analog control stick? Well now you can!" - Link.

Related:

Interview with Ben Heck - Console Hacker Extraordinaire - Link.
nPod - Portable NES - Link.
Homemade Atari 800 XE Laptop... - Link.
Xbox 360 laptop - Link.
PSP projects @ MAKE - Link.

August 28, 2006

PSP Lunchbox

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A soft and friendly psp lunchbox mod action.

Now I was a little worried about my PSP and game bouncing around inside my new ironic metal lunch box so I went and got a large padded shipping envelope and cut it down by tracing the sides into one big insert. I made a single piece in the shape of a cross and taped it all up with some white duct tape. I taped it to the tin first and made a nice and tight fit. My PSP and games in Minidisc cases fit just with some headphones about right without much bouncing around. - Link

July 27, 2006

GPS on a PSP

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Here's how to use a GPS on your PSP (pre 2.0 firmware) by making a custom cable and using the included app - source code is included - Link.

May 6, 2006

Nintendo DS Tic Tac Toe - WiFi with PSP!

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Here is some homebrew code that will allow you to play Tic Tac Toe on a DS (touchscreen) and also over WiFi -with-a-PSP! Excellent homebrewing! [via] - Link.

April 17, 2006

Stream iTunes to a PSP

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Skatter Tech has a how to on streaming iTunes to a 2.6 firmware PSP using an iTunesPSP server app - "Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a very popular device and has sold a few million units, but when compared to Apple's iPod, the PSP lacks storage space. Luckily, the PSP has a built in WiFi card to make up for this disadvantage. With a few simple steps, all of which are included in this tutorial, anyone can stream any non-copyright music from their iTunes library to their PSP." [via] - Link.

Related:
Other PSP projects, hacks and mods - Link.

March 7, 2006

PSP "Flash" (SWF) player source released

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Pikoro on PSPhacks.net writes - "Just wanted to let everyone know that we have released the source code for the PSP Flash Player.The source is available at dev.psphacks.net. 71M is preparing a step by step on how to compile the player from source (it's pretty tricky), and it will be available in this forum." - Link.

Related:

"Flash" (SWF) player for PSP - Link.
PSP hacks, mods and more - Link.

February 28, 2006

PSP Homebrew Flash Player! (with photos!)

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They weren't kidding! Here it is - a Flash / SWF render / player for the PSP, made for, and by, the PSP homebrew community! - "The current version supports most action script through version 7 and runs on 1.5 only. We are currently testing for 2.x PSPs and will announce when it is working on 2.x firmwares. If someone gets it working, be sure to let us know." - Link.

Pictured, here I tried it on my 1.5 PSP and it works.

Keep reading for more photos of what ran, for your old timers, I used the files from Flashenabled the book - and they worked...wild!

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February 26, 2006

Flash player for PSP - February 28th?

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A forum member named 71M seems to have created a Flash player / SWF renderer (clone) for the PSP and won the PSP SWF player coding contest on PSPHacks. This is pretty exciting, once the player is released we'll see tons of new games, applications and more. Details are a little skimpy, but the word is the player will be released on February 28th. [via] Link.

A little update: I edited this to make it clear it's not a Macromedia/Adobe Flash player (Thanks John!).

Pictured here, solar powering my PSP.

See past PSP how-tos and article here.

February 22, 2006

PSP eLoader "Brown Ale" released...

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PSP 2.60 firmware users, get your homebrewin' on - "The beta release of eLoader showed us that homebrew was possible on 2.60 firmware, but Brown Ale brings it to the next level and is now on par with the 2.0 Firmware EBOOT Loader. That means that 2.60 users can enjoy all the homebrew that 2.0 users have been playing for quite some time. eLoader requires the 'Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories' UMD to be inserted in the PSP for 2.01 firmware and above to work." Link. Pictured here, homebrew chess on the PSP.

February 21, 2006

PSP LEGO charging dock

Tysonhy in the MAKE forums writes - "Here's a little project that I did today. The PSP lego charging dock. It took me about 1 hour 15 minutes to make this and if I had more of the same colors, I would've made a much better color design. Cost to make this charging dock was about $6.00 in lego pieces. Cheaper than purchasing those $25.00 ones. Let me know what you think." Link.

February 17, 2006

PSP controlled Helicopter

This looks like the start of an excellent project - using a Gumstix robostix and WiFi CF card the Maker controlled a RC helicopter with a PSP, but then it all crashed, so hopefully the project will start up again soon. [via] Link.

February 16, 2006

Homemade portable, handheld Playstation 2

Forget the PSP, here's a video of a homemade, handheld portable Playstation 2! [via] Link.

February 13, 2006

HOW TO - Make your own homebrew games for the PSP

Brad writes "Make your own homebrew games for the PSP! A HOWTO that walks you through setting up the development environment, making your first program, and then some subsequent techniques for enhancing your games (adding images and audio for example)." Link.

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