First 360 Mod! Well A Controller Mod, light up x button Options

[von_braun]

Started by hollowing out the inside of the button, put in 5mm 630 mcd led and filled it will hot glue, then "painted" around the outside of the button with a sharpie to limmit bleeding into the 1 2 3 4 areas.
And the button still functions offcourse.


This post has been edited by von_braun: Oct 24 2005, 05:10 PM

[von_braun]

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This post has been edited by von_braun: Oct 24 2005, 05:13 PM

[gamerguy999]

Nice!

[atomheartmother]

hello couple things:

#1 could you add some pics of the controller inside? you know taken apart.

#2 I thought the controller already lit up in the center?
Cool though but pics of the inside of the controller please and you could even make the first controller tutorial!!!

[von_braun]

Only the outer rings lights up, and thats only on the 360, on pc its no frills so i thought id liven it up.
pics in a min.

[von_braun]

these pics are as detailed as i can get with my eye toy.


I took the power from the 5v leg of the usb.

[atomheartmother]

That is too cool!! I think its time you threw it up on ebay before anyone else does it you could easily cash in early with that! Awesome awesome awesome and DAMMIT you beat me to it!!! LOL

[Devastater]

where'd u get it ???
swipe it from walmart.....lol jk

by the way, sweet before release mod......

[twistedsymphony]

nice work

I'm unbelievably happy that we're now getting actual modding topics in this forum

Since you have the controller I think you should be able to confirm or deny that the ABXY buttons are analog or not. If you remove the rubber pad from the PCB to get a look at the contacts it should make it pretty clear (if it looks like the PCB under the D-Pad... no analog on the ABXY)

Unfortunately you're not the first one to post a mod
This guy beat you by a half hour http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=452910

Though you are the first LED mod

Thanks again for making my day

[atomheartmother]

last questions:

what color led is that green? white? and how exactly did you clear the x and what did you use to do it? Like whats the complete process it looks smashing!!! Just like the dashboard start up image. AWESOME!

[SkateorDie]

modding the actual xbox360 controller with LEDs would make it hard to use when tyring to do multi player... because it lights up to designate what quadrant you are on the console and what player you are.

[von_braun]

First thanks for all your praises.


SkateorDie
"modding the actual xbox360 controller with LEDs would make it hard to use when tyring to do multi player... because it lights up to designate what quadrant you are on the console and what player you are."
Actually no it wont, they are completly seperate from each other. the X never lights up when stock, only the ring around it does.

Sorry i dont know how to quote.

atomheartmother
I uses one 5mm green led, the plastic is tansparent green so i suppose a white would work to.

First i had to hollow out the button by drilling into it with a bit slightly smallerin diam. than the space inside leaving the button an empty shell. The entire button is made of the clear green plastic, the silver is added.
llamma is now doing this mod so they may have more or better info
Those Bastards! jk
llamma 360 light mod

[SkateorDie]

First thanks for all your praises.
SkateorDie
"modding the actual xbox360 controller with LEDs would make it hard to use when tyring to do multi player... because it lights up to designate what quadrant you are on the console and what player you are."
Actually no it wont, they are completly seperate from each other. the X never lights up when stock, only the ring around it does.

Sorry i dont know how to quote.

atomheartmother
I uses one 5mm green led, the plastic is tansparent green so i suppose a white would   work to.

First i had to hollow out the button by drilling into it with a bit slightly smallerin diam. than the space inside leaving the button an empty shell. The entire button is made of the clear green plastic, the silver is added.
llamma is now doing this mod so they may have more or better info
Those Bastards!  jk
llamma 360 light mod

Little button at the bottom right of every post box.

So from what your telling me that "it is completely seperate" is that the light from the center x won't leak into the ring outside of the X? Because if it does it will be kinda hard to tell what player you are and if you have a message or whatnot.

nvm i think i got it...

The peice seem to be seperate and not transparent. This would keep atleast some of the light from leaking to the outside ring where you see your player "status" on your controller. If you have a dim enough LED you wont get any interference with the stock green leds that tell you your "status". What i would do is change out the 4 leds fo the "status" and add one for the X itself. Yet, what sucks is that the LEDs that light the "status" ring around the X are surface mount leds(firgured) and those are hard to replace.... LSdiodes here i come.

image of the Surface mount leds
http://xbox360lowdown.com/images/xbox360_inside_wired.jpg


Peices to the "status" ring and X button in the controller and layed out.



This post has been edited by SkateorDie: Oct 26 2005, 09:57 PM

[von_braun]

So from what your telling me that "it is completely seperate" is that the light from the center x won't leak into the ring outside of the X? Because if it does it will be kinda hard to tell what player you are and if you have a message or whatnot. huh.gif

nvm i think i got it...

The peice seem to be seperate and not transparent. This would keep atleast some of the light from leaking to the outside ring where you see your player "status" on your controller. If you have a dim enough LED you wont get any interference with the stock green leds that tell you your "status". What i would do is change out the 4 leds fo the "status" and add one for the X itself. Yet, what sucks is that the LEDs that light the "status" ring around the X are surface mount leds(firgured) and those are hard to replace.... LSdiodes here i come.

Well I used a sarpie marker all around the outside of the button to stop the leaking, so i dunno if it would leak without doing that, maybe it would.

[soupy_31]

modding the actual xbox360 controller with LEDs would make it hard to use when tyring to do multi player... because it lights up to designate what quadrant you are on the console and what player you are.

wow, thats actually pretty cool. I think MS might be trying to out-mod us!