Have recently finisched my long wanted mod on the xbox remote control.
Have been here beside me waiting for some fun leds to come in the mail, exactly a week ago they arived, 128 of them

This is the results of the fully cramed controller



Totally 8 blue leds beside buttons (camera didn't catch the light around the number buttons)



Bigger arrow = 5mm Blue led, smaller arrow = 3mm blue led





The bright Green 5mm leds in the front...DAMN they are bright...Lighting up the living room easily! Like a flashlight



The placement of the switch for the Flashlight



I wired ALL leds in parallell, the green to negative and to switch thats positive, the blue to negative and to switch thats under the controller thats positive.

Did a little drilling and cutting inside the controller so the light could reach all the buttons, especially for the number buttons.

Thats about it, oohhh also had a bunch of 10 Swedish Öre that isn't useable anymore (they are small so fit well in the litte remote) so I glued some in there to just to get the real feeling...
I glued all leds with glue gun. Not complicated but alot of soldering and VERY tight in there so it took some time getting it together

Hope you enjoy, sorry for not posting any pictures of the inside, does not have any and I'm NOT going to open that damn thing again....EVER!


Happy to answer questions and thoughts... //Varsa

nice i was thinking of doing something like that, just a bit different...

very cool, nice work Varsa

How was you planing on doing it? Got me interested

hey nice..but what about battery life and why the black out on your eyes?..not like any 1 would want to kill you

was gonna have clear buttons (or at least translucent)...

How long do that batteries last on that thing?

Well I really don't know about the batteries, they are probably going to be empty soon but the thing is that the leds only light up when you want them to...I'm not going to use the flashlight so often and not the button glow either, just when I really need them.
Actually isn't the most mods just for show?


Okay, that would be soo nice, but a little hard to get it.

Damn thats cool. Always wanted to do something similar. I bet its a real mess in there LOL.

Great job!

Jepp it's a REAL mess. It was hard putting it together

Nice mod man, very nice.

definalty a first. kudos

was it a pain too do? damn controller is, cracked the case too!
looks good, i like the light up button feature in most universal remotes.
good job

i was going to do somthing like that tomy Sterio remote...now i want to do it more...but just one or two so when u push a button it lights up..like on some TV remotes when u press a button it lights up showing it is sending the signal...

Thats what you think *loads AK-47*

Thats awesome. The TV I have has a similar thingy in it. Press a button on the side and some of the buttons light up with a yellow glow. I want to change it to blue but I'm not shure how to wire SMT LEDs.

Not really a pain but lot of glue gun and thinking of how to do so it takes as little space as posible with the wires and glue, also switches. And those f*cking clips that hold it together is so HARD but you'll thank them laiter.
Something you really have to think about is how small space there is in there when you close it cause if you don't the switches or something else will make that you can't close it.


It is posible just wire a transistor or something to the IR led and your done... It should work, anyone know more about this. I thought about doing it but wanted to have separate switch...(Ofcourse you can have a switch to, but the space is limited :S)


OMG the I have to hide under my bed for a while, but don't worry my laptop is with me so I can stil answer your questions

nice this mod would help me find crap in the dark