The keymat for the white, black, and ABXY buttons doesn’t actually have conductive pills on the back. We find it interesting that there is a carbon sticker covering between the PCBA and the keymat. We proceeded to remove the PCBA from the bottom shell and noticed that there are screw icons silk-screened next to all the screw holes-a great design for assembly consideration! When any one of the conductive pills is depressed and makes contact with the PCB, it shorts the exposed traces, thus registering a button push. The cone-shaped domes provide spring back force, while the black carbon conductive pills trigger button pushes. The top cover of the D-pad snaps into a bracket plate (via cantilever hooks), and the two parts sandwich an elastomer keymat. The D-pad (Directional Pad) button is a self contained subassembly.
#Pdp xbox one controller teardown Pc
In multi-material molding, plastics need to be compatible for adhesion-these are very likely PC and ABS.
Since the ABXY button tops are partly clear and partly opaque, they were produced by insert mold or two-shot mold. How nice of Microsoft to identify the material for us (under the recycling mark)! The top cover is an injection molded ABS shell. Getting inside the controller was very easy-the housing was secured by Phillips self-threading screws, and it took little effort to pull apart. Back to the days when things were plugged in! It was nicknamed “Fatty” and then later “Duke” when it came out-we can see why. Starting with first impressions of the Original Xbox controller, it’s a lot bulkier than the latest generation. For reference, that’s the same year Wikipedia launched (thank goodness!). Get your #tbt and #flashbackfriday hashtags ready, because we’re taking it back to 2001, when the very first Xbox debuted. Ever wish you could jump into a video game and see what that world is like? Well, we’ll do something even better-we’ll get into a video game controller and see what’s inside! We’re tearing down the original Xbox controller and the newer Xbox One controller, to see how the device has evolved.
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