My Memeory card LED MOD, (FINALLY)

[EspI69]

aight , here we go... fianlly finished it... thanks to the 2 points that "Purple Penguin" pointed out to me. im gonna also paint my memory card when i get time....

its just the normal sony ps2 memory card... i cut out the bottom square where the silver sticker was. put a piece of clearplasic as a window.... the soldered on the blue LED... i used a 5mm because the red 3mm that i had was not bright so i just used my dremel tosand it down a little bit...fits perfect now.... look at the pics

[Purple Penguin]

I guess you don't need it now, but heres a crappy drawing of where I soldered my LED point to.


also, just a quick note. a PS2 memory card will fit inside a PS1 memory card's case. and you can get PS1 memory cards a dime a dozen now. that's how i got my clear case.

[EspI69]

i did not use a resistor but im going to see what vltageis running thru it... just got a new multimeter so ill find out..... it seems bright enough and has not messed up or kille dmy memory card... i solered to the pads itself then sanded down a little

[ashmufc]

Nice! Looks great. Is there any way to mod the controller?

[EspI69]

well yea.... i bought a clear wireless controller from game stop today.... they are selling them for $20 (us).... so i boughtit becaus eits wireless andit look klool and is comfortable.... but its also clear so imma put um LEDS in it :)

[ashmufc]

Can't wait for the pics!

[EspI69]

yea gimmie about a day or 2... i need to do 2 mod chip installs and do some LEDS in my ps2... then ill get to work on the controller and ill post pics... but here is a pic of the new controller i bought...! its sexy!

[Purple Penguin]

does it vibrate? or did they take the motors out?

[Thinkdiff]

Has anybody figured out how to get the activity LED mod working?

[EspI69]

they took the motors out ., each side holds a AA battery, but i was at radio shack today and i seen a ps2 contorller, it has a wire but it glows blue. they also had green, and the whole plastic glows while your playing... looked pretty cool and its only $20

[loco_17_pr]

I did this mod yesterday but I dint use a window I just made the sony logo glow
and after an hr my ps2 stop readiing the memory card now slot one dont work

:( THE MOD KILL MY MC :cry:

[EspI69]

dude
take off your cover
look into the memory card bay... check the pins to see if u bent them, that happen to me also at first but then the sanded down the solder point alittle bit and also put a piece of plastic in the memory card to provent it from sliding back in the memory card case...

[darcsyde]

Here's my blue LED DS2, used original red LED housing but with a blue surface mount LED behind it. It looks like a totaly stock controller but with a PS2 matching blue LED.

[digitalFX]

I did the same thing with my controllers only I used a regular rectangular blue led and it came out really nice. Only problem is making sure I don't look directly into the led at night when playing online...it's bright as hell! ;)

[darcsyde]

Where did you find a rectangular blue LED?

[digitalFX]

Actually it came with a set of pc speakers I bought, it was flashing on the front of the box. Do a little search on google, I know I've come across them being sold online before.

[Gradius]

The true Memory Mod. ;)

Gradius

[Thinkdiff]

What did you use to cut that slot into the card? I'd like to do that to my mem card to brighten up my activity LED.

[Gradius]

You mean the little hole for LED ?

If so, I used Electric Drill & Grinder (Bionic AD-19), ideal for PCB boards.

Gradius

[w1ze0ne]

The true Memory Mod. ;)

Gradius


Can we get a diagram for what u used and whats connected where.
Picture looks like you have 3 leads going to 0ne lead of the LED.
U also dont use the other capacitor.
Diagram would be nice.
Thanks

[w1ze0ne]

I got it , Works sweet.

[KrzyInuYasha]

The true Memory Mod. ;)

Gradius

now does this couse the LED to light all the time or only when data is written and read. looks like your using a transiter that is tied to a data line to couse the LED to pulse. i could be wrong of course i'm not an electronics expert just looks like that to me. and if it doesn't pulse the LED is there a way to make an LED pulse when data is written and read from a card that would be more usfull to me for an LED mod then just having it lit on the memcard.

[colombianito102]

his is just stable..check out thinkdiff topic...he did an Activity LED whioch is what you mean...he did one of my mem card too...

[KrzyInuYasha]

yea i just found that message man i hate it when that happens post a reply and question then find what you were after. oh well if any of the admins feel free to delete these posts i did in this go ahead and do so.

[seal_broken]

heres my mc

[ps2modder]

Hmmm....I put 2 LEDs in my wireless air flow controller...but that was really easy.....i regular controller would be cool. I know that Ben999 changed the red led to a green led that he had in a floppy drive.

I am decicing if i am going to change the led and if so i will do it on a psx first...ill keep you posted

[KrzyInuYasha]

what would be cool is to get a transparent PS2 controller and put LEDs through out it link it to a circut that that is hooked into the pressure sensitive feed so they flash or blink differant ways and timings depending on the pressure you use on the buttons also have a set hooked to pulse in time with the rumble motors.

[NorCal]

My $5.77 MC mod

[Crimsta]

Curious to know what transistor that is Nor?

[NorCal]

Curious to know what transistor that is Nor?


It is a MPS2222A NPN Transistor, Part # 276-2009 from RadioShack (http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F002%5F017%5F000&product%5Fid=276%2D2009&hp=search) $0.69

[Crimsta]

Great, I think I'll give this a try.

[DMage]

Does This Also Work for PSX cards? Seems the power or ground shouldnt change. Can anyone confirm?

[ps2modder]

The true Memory Mod. ;)

Gradius

Sure, it is the real thing, but it is very hard to do...

Can you tell me what I need to buy and do because I have not idea what all those resistors, capacitors and LEDS are doing.