I recently built-in this video. I'm going to be customizing its controller this stock black controller is in bad condition and doesn't match my unique Xbox so its time. I fixed that custom cases for Xbox controllers are readily available online in a variety of different colors and styles of course to match my Xbox.
I've chosen a frosted transparent housing which cost only 16 dollars included was the shall all the buttons and trim pieces there's definitely more pieces to this controller than I was expecting postage took over 2 months hence why it didn't make it into the original Xbox 360 video to begin I'm going to start by tearing down my original controller I'll need to take out the battery compartment and batteries before removing the several stalks security screws.
I am using including the pro toolkit from iFixit which houses the correct torque security drivers needed to open this controller after removing the several screws.
I found that I still couldn't separate the two halves of this controller which led me to believe that there might be a hidden screw so taking a closer look at the battery compartment labels I used a spurge to sort of feel around and see if I could find a screw indentation sure enough behind the top label appeared to be a screw so peeling back the sticker .
I found nothing but a piece of plastic so I turned my attention down to the lower sticker and peeling that back sure enough there's a screw hiding underneath removing that screw allows us to completely open up the controller with all the bits and pieces falling out of it with the top cover removed we can take a good look at how this controller works under the hood there is a membrane under each button which is responsible for connecting the contacts on the PCB.
It also provides the button with its springiness and the click when you press down on it lifting out the main PCB it's not held in with any sort of screws or anything so it falls right out of place taking a look at the front panel we can remove the membrane for the d-pad and taking a closer look at the front panel you can see just how dirty the edges are but turning our attention over to the PCB once again.
We can flip it over and take a look at what we've actually got inside there are two vibration motors one is slightly larger than the other these are just DC motors with a weight attached to them and what we're interested in though is these trigger buttons which are still black.
We're going to take these off and put the frosted transparent ones in their place we'll also need to take off the thumb sticks and replace those as well the procedure to remove these trigger buttons isn't very simple. It is just plastic and you sort of have to push things around until you can get the plastic pin out of the little arm that it sits in and then it simply is just clipped in place so with a little bit of persuasion and some force it Clips right out of its position there is a spring underneath as well which we'll need to make sure it doesn't go flying across the room because we'll need to reuse that with the new buttons pulling the spring off.
We can install it on our new trigger button and align the spring with its post and put everything back together in the reverse order to what we did with removing the old button once it's aligned we can test it out make sure that it is still functioning as it should and we can move over to the other side and repeat the same process.
I found the second time round this was much easier as I kind of knew what I was expecting when I was trying to get this removed and how it was actually seated into its little housing here we can line up the spring once again on the new button making sure it's attached to its post properly and clip it all down back into place testing it out it seems to be functioning just fine.
I can attach the new thumb-sticks which as you can see also transparent while I've opted to go fully transparent with this one you could mix and match some of the old components to sort of have a transparent and black controller. I can attach the d-pad onto the new face-plate and I can clean the inside of the controller which had a little bit of dirt in it.
I'll also clean all of the buttons before putting them back in as they had a little bit of grime around the sides from plenty of use over a number of years using some cleaning alcohol and a microfiber cloth I can get these parts looking like new coming back to the face-plate I can get the Xbox home button installed as well as all of the other buttons which are sitting in this face-plate installing the membrane for those buttons and the d-pad.
I can put in this little support piece at the bottom of the controller as well as attach the trigger buttons up top now for some reason this middle section is separate but clipping it into place I can install the sync button on the back of the controller as well using a spurge to push that into place I can then seat everything down into the face-plate and get the main PCB reinstalled lining up the two vibration motors in each of the little arms and pushed the PCB down into place being careful to route all the buttons and everything correctly to make sure everything will be functioning when we put it back together once.
I'm happy with everything I can reinstall the back panel by first clipping it down into place and firmly pressing it down making sure there's no gaps or any issues with the casing itself and then I can reinstall all of the talks t9 security screws into the back of the controller found one of the screws particularly tight so I gradually timed and loosened it therefore making sure not to snap off the plastic peg which the screw is going into of course we can't forget about that hidden screw which.
I'll need to put in as well as transfer across the stickers on the back just to make everything look nice and authentic and just to show off that this is a genuine Xbox controller although the casing itself isn't genuine at all the lower sticker was missing some adhesive so I added some and everything went on just fine.
I even transferred the authentic Microsoft sticker from the battery compartment just to finish this controller off nicely grabbing my custom Xbox 360. We can turn it on using the controller and test out that all the buttons are still functioning as they should and sure enough everything is working and the controller is ready to go so this is it my Xbox is now complete with its matching controller while the console itself is fully transparent and the controller is only a frosted translucent color it means that it won't be prone to scratching easily if this was a gloss plastic it would be very scratched within a number of uses.
I'm a huge fan of making devices transparent so be sure to check out the custom tech playlist for more of my projects in terms of durability there's no flex in the controller or anything however it does squeak if you put a bit of pressure on it but to be fair my original controller did this too and on that note this has been a huge reveries video if you like what you saw hit that subscribe button and consider checking out the custom tech playlist for more videos just like this one and if you're looking for some helpful tips or what tools are used to repair devices be sure to check out my website link which is down in the description that's all for this video and I'll catch you guys next time
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