The underside cover finally dried up and was able to seal the box. Here's how it looks.

 

 

Ok, so after adding the "Back" button and retesting everything has worked just fine. I just finished running the cables to the connectors and afixing the PCB to the box, doing a final test and...  it's good to go!!   

 

Later on I'll do a complete walk through of how the process went, what have I learned, what mistakes I've made, etc.

 

For now here are some more pics.

 

 I cannot believe my luck.........

So finally my 360 arrived a few minutes ago... YES!!!  (Kudos to Mcsft cuz the whole ordeal took just 8 days to get it back!!)

Pretested the controller and everything works as planned. YES!!!

I'm right now adding the "Back" button. I thought It wouldn't matter but I was asked to press "back" to continue on SFII so... gotta add it. And as soon as that's done I'll install the PCB on the box and connect everything to run a final test.

Expect more media later tonight.

What a beautiful day...

So yep, the box is finished, painted, the buttons, stick, and decal already installed. The wiring on the controller is finished too but since I don't have a 360 yet I could only test the power button, which works by the way.

 

I did however have to get rid of the rumble motors as the whole package was being a pain to fit in. Anyway I'm not sure how rumble would work so... If something had to go that was it. To make up for the lack or rumble I added two LEDs connected to where the motors would go so whenever the rumble would go on the LEDs will flash... will it work???

 

I did get a call from UPS telling me my 360 is coming back from repair tomorrow! That's good news (I hope) If indeed arrives tomorrow then I'll do some testing on the controller. And if everything goes right you'll see the rest of the pictures and possibly some video (over the weekend) of the thing in action.

 

What I was trying to do was salvage a quasi dead 360 wireless controller of which buttons used to "stick" and were non responsive. So instead of throwing it out I tried to do something with it, and that's where the decision of making an arcade type controller came about. I decided to go for a small footprint, the most compact thing I could come up with yet that would allow me to have a Happ Stick and 8 Pushbuttons, plus the PCB of the original 360 wireless controller in it. How will it turn out? Will I succeed? Only time will tell. Time as in like... tomorrow, if I get my 360 back...  :P

 

Below are the pictures of the layout mockup as well as the "wired" controller as originally intended to be used.