Okay, so I was bored last night and decided to tear into the 360 remote. Check it out!










Teeheehehee! I hope you like it! That switch is for the light. I thought about making it for the remote (and could have done that), but I didn't. And the button presses perfectly too! Doesn't stick, goes up all the way, just like normal!

i wished every time i pick my remote up its guide button lit



pics with the cover off plz

looks nice...i always wondered why the controller didnt light up like the controllers do. that would have been h0t

And reveal my big secret? For you guys, no problem!!

Nice...

i havnt use my remote since i bought the 360... unless something cool works with it prolly gona sell it, or give it to some needy core user. nice mod though, i love lights!

I love the remote, It's nice to be able to change songs during a game without actually opening the guide and disturbing the action. Especially in MP games in like Q4.

Anyways, nice mod, I wonder how it'd look with a blue LED...

Waits for a flood of core users shouting "I'll HAVE THE REMOTE lol10101lol1o1lo" hehe

BTW very nice mod mate, bet that looks a buite when lite up at night

Haven't any of you guys used the other fancy remote? I have them side-by-side at all times. The big one light up all over, including the buttons. I use it to change songs on my 360 when listening to my iPod. BTW in case you guys don't know, you can use the little arrow button on the remote in-game to change songs without loading an annoying guide screen.

found that one out by mistake lol, i kinda sat on my controller and the song changed and i was like "WTF???" then noticed what i had done lol

That is pretty awesome, I really thought they should have made the remote light up to match the controller. Very cool.

Yea, I agree. They should have made the X light up. It makes a lot of difference. But then again, there would have to be some sort of power switch, or auto off or something to prevent the battery from dying. Thats why I put a switch on it.

I'm still wanting to get into my wireless controllers....

Didnt use any resistor? You're essentially shorting the batteries because leds have very little resistance. I'm no expert but just something I remember from school.

instead of a physical switch you should have used a tilt sensor and a 555 timer... so if the remote moves the light stays on for X amount of time... that way whenever you pick it up the light will come on

oh yeah... moving to case moding

^^^ that's a good idea

Very cool . Could you show some pictures of the front of the board where you did the solder points for Power + Ground ? I wanna try this

i think the board is held down by the glue

MAKE A TUTORIAL...for the scene to use

That is a good point. It works just fine, only it would probably drain the batteries a little faster, but it would be a good idea to throw in maybe a 100Ω resistor.

Since you guys are asking for a tutorial, I'll make one and include the resistor.

alright!! Score..haha

+1 for whiteblazer

I have done a remote mod. It isnt as good as this one but it only takes 2 minutes. Its just adding an led overtop of the transmitter LED(dont know what its called) so when ever you press a button it blinks really quickly until you let go of the button. This mod could easily be applied to the guide button. To do this just solder right to the transmitter led wires (ground+power

Okay, so here goes the tutorial...

Tools you will need:

- small flat head screwdriver (good for prying things)
- small philips head screwdriver
- 1 LED (color is up to you. I used green)
- 1 100Ω resistor
- 1 switch (I used radio shacks small slide switch. (pictured here)
- a router
- hot glue gun





Step 1, take out the batteries and unscrew the screw.



Step 2, open the controller. Its pretty simple. I found its easiest to use a very small flat head screwdriver, and pry apart the controller from under the front IR lens. Then open the whole thing working your way towards the bottom. be careful not to pull on the battery tabs.




Step 3, take the board, and solder some wire to the top side of the battery contacts. Be careful though. The battery contacts will fall out if they are not being held together. I used an alligator clip to hold the contact to the board, that way when I melt the solder, it wont fall out.



Step 4, work the wire around to the back side of the board, and run it along the very edge of the board. This is important because the back cover of the controller has extensions that hold the board in place, and the controller wont close right if the wire is in the way. Just hot glue the wire in place as you go. Nevermind the switch in the picture, I will save that step for later.



Step 5, Ieft a little bit of slack on the end of the wire just in case, but this is where you solder the 100Ω resistor to the LED, then solder it to the wires. Solder the resistor to the positive end of the LED (the longer leg is positive), and be sure to solder the LED to the wires correctly, otherwise the LED will burn out.






Also, the LED is not mounted to anything. It will pretty much just float.

Step 6, take out the X button (easy). then notch the top of it so light can shine through.





In the trial and error stage, I was planning on have the LED inside the button, but that won't work. you will notice that I gutted the button, but it still works.



Step 7, Now its time for the switch. Carefully line up where the switch is going to go, and mark it on the controller. Be careful that the switch won't be in the way of those extensions on the controller.



Notch out a section on the top AND the bottom of the case. just go a little at a time, checking to see if the holes are big enough and line up.




Step 8, You have to cut off the IR LED holder so your LED can fit. this won't affect the performance of the remote.



Step 9, now put the rubber buttons back, and put the board back. Make sure the LED goes around the board and aims at the X button. This is how it will light up.



Step 10, now its time for the switch. put the switch in place and look for a spot to cut the wires so they can reach the switch. Cut the wires, and solder them to the switch. Then put the switch in place and glue it to the side of the remote. Make sure the board is all the way down, and all the buttons come out the remote the way they are supposed to.

The place where I put my switch, I had to cut a little off the screw tab because it overlapped the clip for the remote. Also, be careful not to be in the way of any extensions. If you are, its okay to trim 1, but don't go crazy.



After that, you are pretty much done. Make sure the X button pressed normal and comes back up, and make sure the LED doesn't shine through and blind you when you press the button down. This can be fixed by adjusting the LED.

And thats all I have to say about that! I hope this helps everyone! Let me know if you have any questions.

Paul

I have seen this up close. When Paul was chipping my box he showed me what he was working on. It works!!!!! Nice Tutorial. Keep up the good work. Once I get my xbox 360 going to need you to make me one. thanks for tutorial bro.

Great job ! Tutorial is real nice too. I might try this one soon.

Thanks bro...nice tut!

Thanks to this tutorial, here is my mod. The only thing I did differently was powered it through the infrared l.e.d. already there so there is no switch to activate mine. I just hit a button and it lights up.

http://media.putfile.com/Modded-360-Remote

Sounds cool! sounds like the same thing Saunders73 did. I did have trouble seeing your picture though.

I might also try and do both. I would have to put a diode in mine since the LED is connected directly to the battery. This way, the IR LED won't be constantly on.

Im glad everyone enjoys this!

nice but i already did it in red but without the switch but yea nice job

Can you take a pic? I'd like to see what it looks like in another color (I don't feel like swapping LED's).

i did it as soon as i saw the mod (not the tut) mines red n switched but on my next one itll be blue all the time n flash red with button presses via a bi color led anyways heres mine

White blazer, you might want to show how your rubber button thingy looks after the install too. Because for me I had to actually cut part of the circle part where the x is to get the led to shine through.

That is a really good idea! I will try that out with the bi color.




Are you talking about the rubber part of the button that goes into the plastic piece? What I did was in the beginning, I was planning on having the LED sit inside the Green plastic button, so I gutted the crosshair part inside, and noticed the button wouldn't fit with the LED in it, so I trimmed the rubber part that goes into it. The LED still didn't fit, so I placed the LED just outside of the button, and notched the button so it shines through.

That is a really good idea! I will try that out with the bi color.


post a vid when you're done, ill be doin the bi color to a big remote as well as changin the smds, what color should i do as secondary (button presses)?

I'm doing that with two copper sensors on the handgrip, so that when you grab the remote, it completes the circuit, and lights the leds.

Hey, that would be a cool! I like all these different ideas everyone is coming up with!

here is mine with blue leds used:

heres mine with red ledz even know i did it b4 this dude i never posted but yu know idc anyway

there was no need for that

but anyways diggin the media remote guide button. just love that x color. what is it red orange or some other led color?

Blood,

This tut is great and with pauls permission ive now listed it up on my tutorials section thanx
http://www.icp4ever.com/Xbox/Tutorials/360/RemoteLight/

now you shold try lighting up each A B X Y button lol

Nice work on the tutorial !

Too bad the pics are gone and can't visually see exactly what is going on... could someone possibly put some back?

Since the pictures are gone in the first post, and I can't edit it, I compressed the pictures in a folder, and hosted it on the website. Here is a link to the rar file.

http://www.mymodmall.com/hosted/forums/xbox360remote.rar

2 years late man

I think he realized that since he was the one the actually started the thread 2 years ago.

Hey why cant i view your pictures?? It just says IPB IMAGE?? I know sometimes they dont let guests see pictures but im not a guest?? HELP

Hey can you PM me or email me with some pictures. Because that link you just posted gets an error when i try to get to it. Please let me know because i really want to see how you did this. Thanks