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=> Discussion Boards => General Discussion => Topic started by: SYSTEM aka (Cyberpyrot) on December 11, 2007, 05:37:21 AM
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As most of you know AcidMods will be featured in the next issue of Official Playstation Magazine here are the photo's
(https://www.acidmods.com/images/guitar/mag2.jpg)
(https://www.acidmods.com/images/guitar/mag1.jpg)
(https://www.acidmods.com/images/guitar/mag3.jpg)
so every one go out and buy a magazine
From: "**********"
Subject: Official PlayStation - Interview!
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:15:10 +0000
To: "Mark Hammonds" <badmin@acidmods.com>
Here are those questions I've been promising! If you can get some answers down tonight and emailed over to me for tomorrow that would be great!
1. Tell us a bit about yourself, your real name, where you live and your day job!
1: My name is Mark Hammonds I am a grandpa from Houston Texas and I work for Hewlett Packard That is my beautiful wife Adelina in the picture holding my guitar.
2. What made you decide to mod the guitar?
2: Well I decided to mod the guitar because it has not been done before and I was terrible at the game. I hang out at a dedicated modding site were you can find some of the most bizarre mods from PSP’s with Duel Nubs perfect for first person shooters to PSP’s that change color’s based on where you touch it. I have been modding for a long time.
3. What materials do you use? Are they hard to find?
3: The materials use most often are common resistors, capacitors, IC’s (Integrated Chips) and are easy to find in most RadioShack’s but for the odd item Laser Diode or Flux Capacitor I have to order it from Mouser Electronics.
4. What was the process for making a mod?
4: The processes for modding is simple first come up with an idea then research the tools and materials needed to complete the Mods and last but not least never quit anything can be done.
5. Are you a big gamer? Do you like Guitar Hero?
5: I love to Game my favorite are FPS (First Person Shooters). I thought Guitar hero would be an awesome game and I get all giddy if I hit a few notes but I am horrible at it so I decided to change a few things to improve my performance.
6. What do you do with the pieces when you're finished?
6: When I’m finished with a mod and the tutorials have been written for the world I will usually part out the device for future projects.
7. Do you sell them anywhere?
7: I never sell mods I do this stuff to teach kids about electronics most people who come to my site find a very friendly environment free from the negativity of the rest of the internet. I pride myself for having a safe haven for kids to learn skills. I have some really amazing 14 year olds soldering some of the smallest components and doing a better job then some of the guys that do it for income. Also I believe modding is something parents can do with there children as a hobby it is good to teach kids early about problem solving.
8. Have you got any future mod projects in mind?
8: I just finished making an optical array for the guitar this allows the guitar to play the game by its self. To achieve this I had to create an application to send pulses of light to the guitar to instruct it to play certain notes.
9. Are there any pieces you'd like to make but seem like too big a project?
9: There are never any projects that are to big to accomplish the only thing that sometimes restricts us is budget.
10. What are you working on right now?
10: I’m being flown to Barcelona Spain for a Mod we are working on for a huge company on the 19’Th of December it is a huge mods and will be broadcasted world wide. If by chance you can edit this after the 19’Th you can tell your readers about it but since I signed a NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) I cannot divulge the info till after the commercial.
11. Where can people see your work?
11: All of my work and the work of F00 F00, Neubit, Can We Hack It?, L0rdNic0, and many other awsome modders can be see at AcidMods.COM
So every one we will most likly be in he next issue Jan or Feb so go out an buy it..
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i cant wait for the 19th
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they should have gone more indepth thats pretty general stuff and they didn't ask who you worked with while doing the project
7: I never sell mods I do this stuff to teach kids about electronics most people who come to my site find a very friendly environment free from the negativity of the rest of the internet. I pride myself for having a safe haven for kids to learn skills. I have some really amazing 14 year olds soldering some of the smallest components and doing a better job then some of the guys that do it for income. Also I believe modding is something parents can do with there children as a hobby it is good to teach kids early about problem solving.
im 14 lol how many 14 year olds are there here
can't wait to find out what the huge mod is
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im 14 lol how many 14 year olds are there here
i also started modding when i was 14 :)
man, those 8 days are too long, I can't wait :tup:
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cyber is right there are lots of great 14 year old modders. e.g i know teh-0verl0rd, because hes helping me with a trigger kit! hehe..also mattzani and pspkicks, theres a few - not including me i cant solder properly :huh:
and cybers name is Mark Hammonds? cool
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cyber is right there are lots of great 14 year old modders. e.g i know teh-0verl0rd, because hes helping me with a trigger kit! hehe..also mattzani and pspkicks, theres a few - not including me i cant solder properly :huh:
and cybers name is Mark Hammonds? cool
how about me i'm good no its ok lol
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o ye! and 4DP...
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i think hes referencing the (i think he was 12) guy who did some SMT mod chip in his wii
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Welcome to europe
too many 14 year olds
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Hey I'm 15 not 14 :'( gz
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very nice - but i agree maybe they should of gone a bit more in depth but then you need to think that simple is sometimes better for the first time round to draw there readers into the modding scene then any subsequent interviews could go a bit more in depth.
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im sure there will be more interviews they had no idea how many mods we have done.
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lol - they should give us our only article to write each month
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i expect they'll mention your ad, as the december issue should be on shelves in the next few days.
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Cyber, one question. Are you going to link the commercial asap??? Maybe on the news page since that will be big news. :beg:
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Nice Cyber!!! I'm sure Sony will want more information about Acidmods especially since we like to keep everything here legal....
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okay, i got the mag but i cant seem to find the article on AM :cry2:
ive looked many times
if someone can get the pages its on (if its in there)
btw, i might have gotten the wrong playstation mag
to make sure, its the one with MGS4 on the front
and it came with a calendar, but no disk, so idk
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OPM differs from country to country. So it may be only the US that gets it.
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OPM differs from country to country. So it may be only the US that gets it.
i am in the US
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Cyber....your wife is beyond bein on FAIYAAA!!!!! That's coming from a teen to let ya know, lmao
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p3nny you gotta keep those kinda thoughts to yourself, and preferably within your own private time o_O ... dont broadcast those type of things or there wont be any more images =P
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Update:
Hi Mark!
Just getting in touch again about the Guitar story. The folder I saved all your brilliant photos in has been cruelly lost in a server reshuffle, and the links you gave me longer work. Could you resend them all? Sorry to be such a pain!
We're putting it into issue 16, so it should be out in Feb, and I can send you some copies as soon as it hits shelves!
Rachel : )
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Not gonna ask for a free one lol... Can you scan it and put it on Am so. Thanks
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Not gonna ask for a free one lol... Can you scan it and put it on Am so. Thanks
I will scan it
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congrats cyber
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thx.... you build me all up to buy the janurary issue, now i see this after i buy it, and find out its in the feb issue, w/e ill buy it anyways, thx OPM/cybers broken links
but, its all good,
btw, before anyone reports that its not flaming, its sarcasm
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lol, it was a joke, sry, but she looks nice =)
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So im assuming the cover on the front page is not the 1 the article is published in?
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So im assuming the cover on the front page is not the 1 the article is published in?
no that was just an image we used we don't know yet what will be on the cover
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for some strange reason i feel old..
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i will buy it but just in case i will be cheeky and ask can you ask rachel to send me a free one please lol
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i think every answer ended with well you know acidmods is great bla bla bla...... its good that your advertising the site and all just funny i think..... maybe im nutz.
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i got january's edition for extra reading on my vacation, i'm not a big reader, and i liked what they had (its the one on front page with mgs4 on cover; avid mgs fan) and though 'well that was nice, i guess it cant get any better..' and it just totally did
nice work :D :D :D