LED crazy DS

Adding LEDs makes everything better. Watch this video as a regular old DS gets turned into one of the most awesome things on the planet. A ton of LEDs were added, some to the body, some to an extra cartridge, some behind buttons. Parts are wired into the speakers, so you get nice effects to your music. We’ll bet the battery life suffers, but who cares. This thing is worth it. This was originally taken from Nico Nico Douga, which overlays the comments on the video.

[via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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tagged: ds, led, nintendo

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Did I heard the battery will survive for 5 minutes?

Posted at 1:02 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by Frank

Epileptics beware!

Posted at 1:14 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by Sean

Nice mod, terrible scrolly text video!

Posted at 1:54 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by iR377

There is a fine line between totally awesome blinking lights and crappy cellphone cover from that kiosk (you know, the store so sucky it doesn’t even have a real store) in the mall that only the junior high kids hang out at. don’t get me wrong, i love LEDs… but wow.

Posted at 2:05 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by joe

talk about ds LITE

Posted at 2:40 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by roshamboe

Wish I could find the original NicoVideo link so I could watch without the comments. Who on earth uses a screenrecorder to save NicoVideo stuff rather than just pulling the original file from the site?

Posted at 4:41 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by EdZ

OK, that was a lot easier to find than I was expecting:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5219923

Posted at 4:49 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by EdZ

Ok, so that was a DSi, not a DS Lite, right? If so, does anyone know what card was used to run home-brew? I read that homebrew didn’t work and that the loadable cartridges and things didn’t work with the new one.

Posted at 7:46 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by Christopher Reitmann

No, it was a DS Lite. When they first take it apart, there’s no camera on the top.

I’m not sure why they had a DSi earlier in the video, not speaking or reading Japanese.

Posted at 8:34 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by Eric

In case you wondered wwwww is Japanese net speak for something like LOL.

Posted at 10:23 pm on Nov 17th, 2008 by Echo_Hotel

I suspect (ALSO not reading japanese) the intro is something to the effect of…

“So the DSi is out now… and that means it’s time to upgrade my DSLite… BY ADDING SOUND-SENSITIVE LEDS!”

Posted at 1:05 am on Nov 18th, 2008 by JB

And here you thought the Japanese modded their *cars* when they got bored!

Posted at 3:33 am on Nov 18th, 2008 by srilyk

No, that’s “azn pryde” retards and white trash.

Posted at 11:42 am on Nov 18th, 2008 by Rawrl

I’ve already done this to mine last year, lol :P
It’s pretty sweet. Easy too. I’m going to put better speakers into it next time I open it up, haha

Posted at 4:07 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Ryan

anyone know what circuit was used for the sound-reactive LEDs?

Posted at 6:05 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by kingconga42

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