i was contemplating on modding a vita i had made from the spares. i've seen oxyll mod version and thought to myself "why not do it myself?"

i made my own board from some pcb i had lying around. cutting was done with a dremel and all sorts of bits. i had to use microscope to make traces and vias. whole thing was done in about... 3-4 days? i don't remember, as i wasn't doing it all day but a few hours on average.

i coated the board with some clear epoxy to try and protect the copper, but i'm not sure how much of it survived the heat from soldering. i can still see some of the epoxy so i guess it's not completely lost. for vias, i used 0.2mm solid wire and soldered it on both sides. now that i'm thinking about it, i could've probably used stranded wire and results would be better.

i have some more ideas to make the whole process simpler and easy to solder, but i don't have any more vitas to try it on. also, i hate that there is not a better way to do diy vias but with wire, or small copper rivets that don't really work for long and narrow holes (like in case of usb port legs).

i'd probably buy oxyll's mod but importing it to europe is something i tried to avoid. all in all, this mod costed me about 5 bucks or so? it ain't pretty, but it works.