[Pirate]

This guide will teach you how to make a pulsing slot light for the PS3 drive just like the Nintendo Wii has. It will also void your warranty so use at your own risk

Materials Needed:
*Philips head screw driver
*Soldering iron /w solder
*SMD LED (Your color choice).
*PIC 12f629 (big or small version, bigger is easier in this case)
*PIC programmer

*470t86; resistor
*Wire (30 AWG Kynar wire recommended)
*Momentary push switch
*Proto Board(optional)
* PS3


To get started download the Pulse Hex from here.

Now use ICProg to program the PIC 12f629 with the PulseHEX you just downloaded from above.

After programming the chip, solder up the chip as shown below. Note: I have used the smaller version IN/S but it makes no difference.




You want wires coming from Pin 1,2,5& 8 for these are the pins we will be using. At this point i decided to wire up the circuit to a proto board this is the schematic:

Now wire as show in the schematic and you should have something like this:

I have a little plug where i can just unclip the LEDs when I need to remove the Drive

Once that is all wired up letr17;s take apart the PS3 all you need to do is take its top off ( if you donr17;t know how to do it look up for the tutorial) get it to this stage

Now remove the BD drive there is a ribbon cable underneath it and a power cable at the side so just take not of them.
That power cable at the side I just mentioned is where we will be getting out power from its 12Volts so thatr17;s why we need the 470ohm resistor

Here is what I am talking about:


Update The pins for the 12v power are postive wire to pin 1 (black wire) and negative wire to pin 3

Now lets focus on the BD drive at the front at the moment there should be some felt, peel this off and put it somewhere in case we need it again.

Looking at the front case there is a hole at the right and left of the DVD drive (I used this to run the wiring through it helps hold it in place )
Now with that LED at that end i just put a little foam tape next to it to keep it in place and protection.

One completed and other not:

Both done; Note that the wiring can be hidden behind the front metal shielding if you opt to do this you will have to take apart the shielding from the BD drive a little bit
Both done connected the circuit board:

Now this is probably a good time to plug back all the ribbon and power cables the BD drive and then plug the circuit board into its 12V power points. and turn the PS3 on.
This is what you should get

It should pulse at the fastest speed if this is your first time using it with that PIC but just press the push button to activate a slower sequence keep pressing the button till your17;re happy with a speed.

Here is a video of what you should be looking at so far:



Here is a picture of where the circuit board hides

And a picture of it with the case back on

I have Used UV LEDs in this case and they are not very bright and photograph like crap for some reason (I was trying to go with the whole UV theme as thatr17;s the color of the bluray laser but itr17;s just not as spectacular as I hoped for so I will probably be changing them to green SMDs which are more vibrant )

Enjoy
Original guide by Absorbent Llama, modified by Pirate

[Razor_Fangs24]

Awesome tutorial, glad too see it back up

[weed37]

thanks pirate i wanted to do this but post was dwn will get on it in a flash

[megamania2004]

dont work that program...

[desertd]

thanks for this pirate it took a while but it worked its well worth it

[woox]

Can someone please explain to me how to draw the power from bluray power to LED's? the image posted is too small and I am a newb at electronics and stuff (but I know how to solder)...greatly aprecaited if you can up a bigger schmatic on how to connect the LED to resistor to bluray power.

thanks!!

[Bubble Guts]

I love people who are so eager to rip a $600 machine apart.you are all much braver than I

[XWyldRogueX]

Seen this tut somewhere but can't remember. The only thing missing is the video showing the LEDs pulsing (which looks really good!)

Thanx for finding this again!

[ichigo99]

cool! but like Bubble Guts said i dont really want to open my 600$ system looks great though

[Swank]

really dig this mod but I am not a fan of the pulsating lights just curious if just hooking the led straight to the power with the resistor would work. I am a wiring noob so just wondering before I tear into my ps3 and fudge something up. In theory its sounds goods at least to me