Power your PSP with a trio of AAA batteries

For those of you who just can't get enough playtime with your ever lovin' PlayStation Portable, and have a knack for running low on juice while not even remotely close to an AC outlet or recharging venue, here's a mod that can offer you some battery powered backup for your handheld Sony. Not at all for the faint of heart or the novices in the house, this battery hack joins the incredibly long list of hackerations that we've seen come the PSP's way, and while it takes a bit more effort than just picking up the X2, we're sure the bragging rights alone make it worthwhile. The crafty gurus over at Acidmods have apparently found a way to gut, re-wire, and completely transform your average PSP battery pack into a vessel that can hold a trio of AAA cells in order to power your bantam machine. Admittedly, this ranks pretty far right on the DIY difficulty scale, so we wouldn't recommend risking your life on this one unless you know quite a few tricks of the trade, but if you've nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon than create a battery pack out of a battery pack, the read link is waiting for your attention.

[Via PSPFanboy]

[Ayle @ Feb 5th 2007 12:23AM]

Hum let see : tampering with a battery?... Dangerous... Tampering with a lithium battery?... Extremely dangerous... Tampering with a Sony lithium battery?... Are you nuts?????

[Xevious @ Feb 5th 2007 12:36AM]

Why bother? I bought the same thing at BestBuy.

[Xavier @ Feb 5th 2007 12:37AM]

This is seriously SO OLD...

[VVVV @ Feb 5th 2007 6:47AM]

vow....but isn't tampering with batteries quite dangerous..

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[mitch @ Feb 5th 2007 10:47AM]

Yeah i bought one of these bad boys at wal mart or something... too bad i'm retarded and bricked my psp.... YAY!!

[Phil @ Feb 5th 2007 11:42AM]

Someone should just sell a battery case that lets people do this without taking the PSP battery apart. Does anyone know if there is something like this for laptop batteries? I'd love to use AA rechargables in my laptop and just replace them when they lose their ability to hold a charge.

[exiodus from acidmods.com @ Feb 6th 2007 11:24PM]

lets see, was your batt you bought at walmart the same thing? no... was it internal? no... it is an external device that u plug into the psp's charging port to get power... thereby taking up extra space in your hand while you have it on as its a cheap pos that doesnt work 100% of the time, and causing your gaming ability to drop slightly. this goes where your battery goes... taking up no extra space in your hand... wow... yea you really bought this at walmart...
as to engadget, please note that -Neubit- from acidmods.com was the one who created this mod, and link to our site rather than pspfanboy.com. We dont like it when people dont give credit to the creators and send people away from the creators site... Dont steal the attention when its not your (or their) mod. We created it, we want the traffic for it.

[exiodus from acidmods.com @ Feb 6th 2007 11:28PM]

and btw, modding stuff is about having fun. we like doing stuff like this, so even if some company (datel or madcatz) was to make something exactly like this we would still do it anyway... why spend money when you could just spend 5 minutes doing this mod?