Xbox 360 Custom Plexiglas Ring of Light Button

[Ecrfour]

Hi, I'm modding my Xbox 360, and need to know if there is a lot involved with creating a design, cutting it out of Plexiglas, and applying it where the original power button on the front would go. Also,if there are any tips you might have for me when I do this, they would be appreciated. And just so you know, yes I understand that I might break my console, that this will void my warranty, and that I will need soldering skills to be able to change the colors and that. I just want to know if I could take a piece of Plexiglas that I cut out of a sheet of Plexiglas, and replace the power button with it.

 

[getochkn]

The piece inside is complex and not something you can cut it. To change the light color, you need to solder new SMD 0603 size.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Xbox-360-Ring-of-Light-LEDs/

 

[Ecrfour]

All I would like to do is install a replacement front button. The Xbox 360 board that controls the led lights is separate from the front plate, which is I assume where the Plexiglas would have to be installed. I am not concerned with the LEDs as I already have some LEDs on the way, that are the correct type and size for an xbox 360 and an xbox 360 slim.

 

[getochkn]

The front button is plastic-welded to the front panel. You can't replace it and get it to function like a button without creating the 4 points that needs to be plastic welded again.

 

[Ecrfour]

how would one go about doing that, do you think?

 

[getochkn]

You can't really. Take yours apart and look or google images and see how it's put together. It's a round button with legs on it that are bent and basically melted to hold the button in place and provide the tension for the button to press.

Small pic but you can see the 4 points in the corner. Those are attached to the button on the middle, made of an exact thickness to provide the proper tension, yet still bounce back into place and then plastic welded (melted) onto those 4 posts.

 

[Ecrfour]

would I not then be able to drill a hole in the center of the piece, and cut out the design with a jigsaw, then refine with sand paper and a series of files, then install the plexiglas? also, as a side note, do you think it possible to string the LEDs together in series using the current power output that is used by the current LEDs, or to get that would I need to use the signal output to the original LEDs as a switch that would then draw power from another source to draw enough power for them. I only mean 2 LEDs wired into each circuit but still...

 

[getochkn]

Guess that could work as long as you don't snap the pieces while trying to file it out and could get a perfectly round piece of plexi in.

Of course then all you will see through the plexi is the front of the ROL.

http://g02.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1gpvlHVXXXXarXFXXq6xXFXXX6/BRAND-NEW-HOUSING-ROL-RING-LED-RF-DIFFUSER-BOARD-FOR-XBOX-360-V-039.jpg

And what do you mean by wire the LED's in series? Each LED on the ROL lights up with 1,2,3,4 controllers plugged in. Now you can hack the ROL board by cutting traces and wire them up to be all on all the time by wiring to a constant ground source or something like that. Been a while but I think it's a PWM that controls it all.

 

[Ecrfour]

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[Ecrfour]

Guess that could work as long as you don't snap the pieces while trying to file it out and could get a perfectly round piece of plexi in.

Of course then all you will see through the plexi is the front of the ROL.

http://g02.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1gpvlHVXXXXarXFXXq6xXFXXX6/BRAND-NEW-HOUSING-ROL-RING-LED-RF-DIFFUSER-BOARD-FOR-XBOX-360-V-039.jpg

And what do you mean by wire the LED's in series? Each LED on the ROL lights up with 1,2,3,4 controllers plugged in. Now you can hack the ROL board by cutting traces and wire them up to be all on all the time by wiring to a constant ground source or something like that. Been a while but I think it's a PWM that controls it all.

I mean soldering wires to each of the leads, and then attatching LEDs accordingly. and do you think that I could do this with a simple symbol? The person that wants me to do this for them wants the ✠ symbol on his ROL. The size that I would like to use is a somewhat dim standard large LED. If you don't think this will work, then do you think that any extra LEDs would be required at all to light up the space in the center?