[Folklord36] on the Acidmods.com forums has been working on a PSP laptop that we think gives the PSP GO a run for it’s money. Sure it may be a bit bulkier but it has a full keyboard, thanks to an Xbox chat pad. The original psp is on the bottom. The screen and speakers have been moved to the top. He says there are still a lot of things that need to be finished, but this is pretty impressive already.
[thanks Robin]
this is whta i want for my birthday…
Posted at 9:15 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by girrrrrrr2
oh and the first link has a letter missing.
Posted at 9:16 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by girrrrrrr2
another console turned into a laptop? i’d like to see a laptop turned into a console.
Posted at 9:23 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by lexi
Plugging a monitor and joystick into a laptop just isn’t that hard. :p
Posted at 9:49 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by CWAL
@lexi
I would, but my laptop video card overheats faster than a PS3.
Posted at 11:30 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by BigD145
Well its an interesting build. Although with Ben Heck around, the whole “console laptop” theme has been run into the ground. It ceased to be cool a long time ago and is just rather annoying now.
Posted at 11:40 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by Josh
@Josh – quit being so negative… where is your console case mod?
Also sometimes things get posted that aren’t quite done, these things that are usually left to be done later, are aesthetics, so quit complaining about how it looks people.
-I do recommend reinforcing and supporting/hiding the ffc cable, it will break easily if left in that position and it receives use.
The next thing people are gonna say is “oh, another x360 chatpad hack… im so sick of those”
Negative Nancy’s just running amok
Posted at 12:19 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by 36chambers
would you guys have been happier if we said “clamshell” instead of “laptop”?
Posted at 12:49 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft
netbook? don’t you mean “low cost small notebook PCs”?
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/306163/microsoft_proposes_wordy_new_name_netbooks
Posted at 1:25 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft
I like it, Sony should be paying attention. (And mabye put an SD card slot in the bloody thing!)
Posted at 2:14 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by Hirudinea
What is the advantage of this? Seems like a lot of people want to also do this to their PSPs, but why would you want to? Sorry I just don’t see the point.. “Because I can” is a completely valid reason, just wondering if there’s something more to gain by doing this to a PSP.
You don’t see the point? Come on, because its cool, because you’ll have the only one of its kind, because it will get you laid (ok, its cool and one of a kind.) Why did cavemen paint on walls or geeks paint laptops, creativity!
Posted at 4:06 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by Hirudinea
My console mods are usually too ugly to show off online, they are more for function instead of form. Such as my booting an xbox from cf card, etc. Im not being negative, its just that the whole folding thing is kinda overdone. Btw, good job on the whole build, it hasnt been done before and IS pretty ingenious.
Posted at 7:33 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by Josh
That PSP looks more like a Waffle maker, to be honest – but I congratulate him on the effort. He now has a super cool and unique testament to his geekiness. ;)
I’ll stick with waiting for the Pandora.
Posted at 7:52 pm on Jun 5th, 2009 by BikeHelmet
kudos to this guy. i tried making something similar but my soldering skills are horrible. i was going to move the X [] () ^ and d-pad buttons and put it all in a bigger case but this mod is pretty sweet, too. if i knew how he did it i’d love to extend the X [] () ^ and d-pad buttons put the screen in my dashboard of my car and hook up the gps/camera on a swich so i could have a rear view camera and gps using the same usb port. put the buttons in my center console of my car and be done… i can dream can’t i?
Posted at 12:10 am on Jun 6th, 2009 by dustin
Whilst it might not look that pretty you have to admire the effort that this guy put into this!
I have a PSP and typing anything in takes ages because there is no touch screen and so you end up selecting each letter with the D-Pad so I can see why they wanted to add a keyboard, its just a shame the chatpad doesn’t come in black.
Posted at 2:40 am on Jun 6th, 2009 by Ed
someone just needs to make a psp that the screen slides up to show the xbox keyboard. i think that would be sweet.
Posted at 6:19 pm on Jun 7th, 2009 by @(^_^)@
Guys, I made a Nintendo DS laptop, with a touch screen.
Posted at 9:34 pm on Jun 8th, 2009 by fenwick
How did you connect the Chat Pad??????
Posted at 8:52 am on Jun 11th, 2009 by michael
THIS IS AWESOME. With sort of thing couls even incorporate a second analog stick.
Posted at 10:31 am on Jun 11th, 2009 by ninja
even a touch screen (just for fun)
Posted at 11:44 am on Jun 11th, 2009 by ninja
where can i get one and how much
Posted at 6:49 pm on Nov 15th, 2009 by sean
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I need one of those, or instructions to make one at least. Any hack that cool beats an official system release from Sony.
Posted at 7:12 am on Jun 5th, 2009 by BigBubbaX