Ah, now here's a breath of fresh air. LED mods are a dime a dozen, but for the first time ever (at least, to our blogosphere knowledge) we now have a PSP-3000 mod. Lookin' mighty sweet, yes? It's got some blue LEDs in certain parts of the Ceramic White PSP-3000 unit, and would look at that? The UMD tray looks like Iron Man's chest plate in the movie! I dub thee, roro3030's PSP-3000 LED mod, the Iron Man mod!

You have to hand it to Travis and the new LED mod that he was able to pull off on the PlayStation Portable. He was able to add a lot of bling on his handheld and literally put it up in lights - 30 LEDs worth of light to be exact. The mod places various LEDs around the handheld and even hooked up some of them to be responsive to the PSP's WLAN feature. Check out the video of the mod in action in our full article.

We've seen quite a handful of PSP mods out there centering on LEDs. And though a sound-reactive LED mod has been done before on the PSP Phat, here's one for the PSP Slim. L0rdNic0 managed to recreate the LED mod on his PSP Slim a few days ago, and now, he's finally posted a video of it. Here, we see the shoulder buttons of the PSP Slim blink to the beat.

This mod didn't require any add on switches whatsoever, and he's able to turn the LEDs on and off without suffering any functionality loss. The PSP Slim is already pimped out as it is. Glad to know some people find familiar ways from the PSP Phat era to pimp out the Slim even more. Lights go blinky-blinky; check it out:

L0rdNic0 intends to release a full tutorial for his PSP Slim LED mod sometime this coming week (he said he'll try to get it up by Monday). For now, you can visit the discussion thread he's created on our QJ.NET forums. Just so you know, this is his first mod, so why don't you guys give him all a warm welcome!

Visit: PSP Hacks forum thread

For those of us who want a little more oomph to our PlayStation Portables, specifically about the bright LED lights on the nifty little gadget, here's a neat little mod that lets those small lights slowly fade out instead of blinking on or off. Courtesy of none other than *FuFa, here's the PSP LED Fader mod, as shown in action in the video embed below.

Certainly looks awesome, doesn't it? Not only does it give the LEDs a pulsing effect, it certainly adds style points if you're playing in the relative darkness. You can check out the tutorial - complete with pictures and an extra video - on how to apply the PSP LED Fader Mod to your own handheld by clicking on the Read link we've supplied. Enjoy the video, and remember to take care when tinkering with your PSP!

Good mod man that he is, F00 f00's dropped us a line once again, telling us of his latest kick-ass mod. The AcidMods team is pretty well known for their mod-work, one of the latest was their right-side analog mod called the the "Razor Nub." This time around, hailing from their sound-reactive LED mod, we now have a PSP Rumble mod that activates from sounds. Take a peek at F00 f00's proof of concept vid:

The story behind this has F00 f00 working on a client's PSP (client here being robin1989), and while trying to do some LED modding, got distracted. He started playing around with a little spinning motor from a mobile phone and decided try his hand once again at a previously semi-unsuccessful attempt at producing force feedback on the PSP.

A few minutes of tinkering, and boom, he's done it. He even says that it was quite a simple mod: where voltage being sent to the speakers would also be routed to the motor to power it. (We're not sure if he was able to finish the actual LED mod though, but hey!, distraction leads to Einstein moments too)

Now a PSP Rumble feature has often been discussed in online forums everywhere. Some say that for Sony to have included such a feature in their handheld would just be a series of lawsuits waiting to happen - gamers would start complaining how their grip slipped on the PSP when it did force feedback. Other people simply dismiss the idea, saying that such a feature isn't necessary.

Whatever the case - whatever your reasons might be - you still can't deny how cool this mod is. Props for F00 f00; another great mod to add to the growing library in the PSP community.

AcidMods R&D team member F00 f00 dropped us a note a while ago about the latest PlayStation Portable (PSP) mod that has been the cause of discussion among their forum members.

It's called the Sound Reactive Led Mod and as the name implies, the shoulder buttons blink and react depending on what's playing on your handheld unit. F00 f00 also told us that a lot of people were a bit skeptic if this was even possible. To prove that this can be done, their team posted a video on YouTube. The team also mentioned that the nitty-gritty on how this was done will be provided later, but for the most part, this mod involves removing the mobo.

The picture you can see on the right is the IC responsible for the Sound Reactive Mod. Theoretically, this should allow the mod to be wired to the PSP's internal speakers but for now, the team had to make do with external ones.

We all like mods. Heck, they make life more interesting for us, and for our PSPs. But how serious are you exactly? If there was a mod-boy award to be given out, would you be in the running? We all know how risky the mod business is. It ain't for the faint-hearted. You gotta have a lot of faith, first, in the developer, and second, in your own skills.

Well, Joe Stranger sure had a lot of both, and if there was a mod-boy award, he definitely would be in the running for it. How come? Just check out this compilation vid of all his PSP mods. He's got the blue WiFi LED, the blue Memory Stick access trigger LEDs, the analogic joystick add-on, and the Xbox jewel complete with blue LED blings. And you know what the best part is? His PSP didn't end up like some Frankenstein. Now that's talent. Good job, dude!