DIY Playstation Portable Usb Charger

Materials Needed

Wire stripper, electrical tape, madcatz psp car charger, and usb cable...optional items...solder gun/solder, and a pair of sharp scissors.

Important Update: The data wires need to be grounded in order for the PSP to charge! Instructions follow.



	1) Grab all your materials. If using a solder iron/gun plug it in now.
	2) Remove the outer shielding of the usb cable. Pull out the tin foil shielding, and reveal the wires.
	3) The wires are: red = +5 volts, black = earth (ground), and the two remaining are data cables. The white wire has disappeared because of the paper towel background...=)
	4) Strip the black (earth/ground), green and white wires (data). Twist them together to form a easy to handle wire.
	5) Strip the red (power +5V) wire. Twist it together.
	6) Grab the car charger. Open it up to reveal two sets of wires, one in white shielding and the other surrounding the white sheilding. Usually when wiring is in this configuration...the inner wire is power while the one surrounding it is a earth wire. Using my voltmeter, I verify this.
	7) Strip both wires, and then twist the stranded wire together.
	8) Take both usb and charger cables. Join the power to power cable, and the earth to earth cable. Twist them around each other, if you are using solder, join both cables now instead of twisting them together.
	9) Wrap both wires individually in electrical tape.
	10) Wrap the whole joint together in electrical tape.
	11) Success! I don't have a PSP, but I have tested this with a five volt cd-player...it works! I'd get photos up of my buddy's PSP in motion with this charger soon...!

msn on the psp

finally someone worked out a nifty little system for the MSN for use on PSP.
And it looks good too. MSN isn't as popular as AIM or anything else, but it's great for talking with people who arent in america or just dont use aim. so this is obviously another step in psp advancing technology. there is literally maybe a little more than 2 or 3 graphics and the rest is nice and text based�.very cleanly I might add. so if you have wipeout pure, give it a try and let us know how it works out.

just point your browser to: http://mob.e-messenger.net/mobile/ and you're all set thanks to [kramer11]

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PSP downgrader for v3.03 released

While I was on vacation, [Fanjita] and [Ditlew] released a downgrader for PSPs running v3.03 firmware. To get it to work, you'll need an unpatched copy of the GTA:Liberty City Stories UMD. The hack should get you down to v1.5. It's supposed to work on all current PSP hardware. Thanks to [wraggster], [Steve DiRaddo]. [Sean] submitted the same info [via noobz], but they don't appear to have credited the authors. (Unless of course, the authors are part of noobz.)

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PSP PS2 controller

[F00 f00] over at acidmods put together this PS2 -> PSP controller. Using some similar techniques to [Ben Heck], he tapped all the control lines on his PSP and broke them out to what appear to be mini-usb connectors. Looking like a matrix subject, his PSP attaches to a dash board suction cup mount. Via pspnews thanks to [wraggster]

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Pandora's battery (unbrick your PSP)

[krazywhiteguy310] let me know about the announcement of Pandora's battery. It'll cost you a Sony PSP battery to pull off the hack, but once you're done, you can use it to jump start your bricked PSP to load up a memory imaged designed to unbrick the PSP. (I haven't tested it, so I'm taking this on faith) Excellent news if you've bricked your PSP.

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Virtualcogs open portable gaming platform

[David] thought you guys might like this - and I agree. It's an open gaming platform built around a PSP LCD. It's got all the basics, and it's expandable. They'd like to put together an order for a run of boards, so let em know if you want one. If you're lazy, here's the specs:

• MX21 ARM9 266MHz processor with 64MB SDRAM and 16 MB of FLASH
• TFT LCD from the PSP (our thanks to Nathan at Sparkfun for helping us out with that)
• stereo audio CODEC
• stereo speakers
• headphone jack
• microphone
• couple of joysticks
• loads of buttons
• battery pack
• SD/MMC slot
• expandable (can add GPS, bluetooth, accelerometers and gyros, etc...)
  

Most of the hardware is pretty decent, but the battery pack could use some help. Maybe a good surplus li-ion cell phone battery.

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high power TVBGone

[Ladyada]'s been busy lately. [bladdo] wrote in to tell me that she put together an extra powerful kit version of the TVBgone. This one's supposed to be good for over 100 feet. If you really, really want to get your ass kicked during the super bowl, this baby in a sports bar should do the trick. There's an optional programming header, so you could program it to turn every TV onto the SciFi channel.

Remember, I want to hear about your hacks! Use the tips line to send 'em in.

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