Wifes Xbox slim.

This post will be a quick one but I wanted to show off the Xbox slim that I did for my wife.

Got the Xbox for free from a friend. The laser went bad so I replaced it and now it works like new. I put a Vault exo case on it with controller holder, window with metallic red painted dvd drive and purple LED's around the fan.

Controllers Pt.2

Well it has been a while since I have made a post, but I have been busy working on more controllers. 

The first one is my wired controller.

I have added new rubber grips to it, a new clear blue top shell and some paint to the buttons and thumb sticks. 

Next is a shell that I painted gold. 

ended up painting a old wireless mouse that I had to match.

Added pink SMD's to the ring of light around the home button.

Next I started to add led's 

Added red and green SMD's to the ring of light.

Leds with blue trim.

A controller I did for my younger brother.

A few of the controllers I've put led's in.

A group shot of most of the controllers I've modded.

This one is not finished but its looking nice.

And finally my pride and joy! Its a deep metallic red with a thick layer of clear coat so it will shine!

you can somewhat see the metal flakes in this picture.

well that is all for now I will be updating this again as much as I can.

Yet another Xbox

Hello again. I've finished up another Xbox so it was time to post it on here.

This Xbox had a bad laser in it so I bought a replacement laser for the BenQ drive installed it and had it working like new, so I decided to mod the case. 

I decided to go with a Army theme since here lately I've been big into Battlefield 3. I drew a grenade on the case and started cutting.

After it was cut out I needed to file it down, and let me tell you that was a lot of filing! After I had it all filed down the next step would be paint. Olive drab was going to be my first choice but I was all out so I went with flat black since that goes well with anything.

This picture shows how it will look with LED's in it. 

Now usually after paint I would add a window to show off the inside but since I painted the DVD drive and the fan shroud flat black there is not much to show off so I decided to do something a little different.

An etching! this was my first shot at doing a etching but it was actually quite easy. If you can trace you can etch(plus its on plexi-glass so no worries about it breaking) the above picture was a test run on a spare piece of plexi. If your wondering what the picture is, Its a dogtag from Battlefield 3 that you can unlock in game.

After I cut a new piece of plexi-glass I etched the same thing on it and stuck it in the case and hot glued it down.

Then came time to choose the LED color that I would go with.

I have a bunch of LED colors: red, green, blue, white, yellow(more of a amber color), pink and purple(UV).

I tried them all out to see which was best.

First was green.(shows up really bright with only one LED) All of the pictures to come were using one LED to light it up so its not very bright.

Yellow(didn't show up very good at all)

Pink. It came out purple in the picture but in person its very pink.

Red. Didn't show up very red in the picture.

And last is white. (I didnt snap a picture of the blue but it was very dim)

To keep with the Army/Battlefield 3 theme I went with the green(plus it was the brightest and wouldn't use as many LED's to light it)

After the LED's went in it turned out great! 

Now I didn't wire the LED's to the motherboard like I usually do since I had no reason to take it apart that much, so I added a battery pack inside the console and put a switch on the outside so I can turn it on and off when needed. The face plate is now black like the case, and the hard drive that is on it is from my other Xbox so I will be modding one with custom window to match this case.

Once I start modding that HDD I'll post that up for everyone to see.

After fixing this Xbox 360 I have now fixed 5 all together, so that means I have 5 Xbox 360 phat's and my Xbox 360 slim which now looks like this:

A Battlefield 4 skin. Cannot wait for Battlefield 4 to come out! 

Phone Fix

Nothing to much to show today except for a phone I fixed.

A HTC EVO 4G. The glass digitizer was banged up pretty bad so it needed to be replaced.

When replacing the digitizer(by the way a digitizer is what makes a touch screen a touch screen. it picks up where your finger is touching on the screen.)

you have to heat up the adhesive that is holding it to the LCD screen, with this phone since it was shattered pretty bad there were a ton of little shards of glass still stuck to the adhesive. I used a hair dryer to heat up the adhesive so i would have a easier time getting the glass off.

This is the finished product. Turned out nicely.

New controller

I haven't posted in a while so I figured I would show off my new controller that I did. 

It started off black. I thought it was pretty bland so I kicked it up a notch! 

I ordered a white controller shell with clear buttons, thumb sticks, microphone face plate and triggers.

After that came in I decided to take it to the next level and add some purple LED's.

It came out looking like this.

I think it turned out awesome! especially for my first try at led lighting in the controllers. Now the LED's aren't really purple they are UV so they aren't as bright as a normal LED that's why in the bottom part of the controller the light is not evenly spread out, but none the less it still looks good. I left it like this for about a day then I had another idea. Graphics!

I had the local graphics shop make me some decals. One of my gamertag with me and Dylon's clan name above it, and the other a silhouette of a Battlefield 3 soldier.

It now looks like this.

I ordered 2 more wireless controllers off eBay the other day so my next project will be started soon.

Boards Pt. 2

Well we had a decent weekend where I could work on the boards! and let me say I think they turned out great! especially since I don't have the steadiest hand in the world. Anyways on to the pictures!

This is my board. My wife wanted to have the Browning deer logo on the boards so I went with a orange one. Now the orange line is not very straight because the paint I used was meant for glass, when painted on it was transparent so I had to blob it on then try to straighten the line up with white paint. I guess it doesn't have to be perfect though since they are just corn hole boards.

And this is my wifes board. She wanted to have a pink Browning deer logo to match her pink bags. The pink paint was the same as the orange(made for glass) but it wasn't as hard to work with for some reason as this line came out way better!

I still need to add the final coat, its like a clear epoxy wax or something along those lines, after that then they are ready for play!

Boards

Hello again everyone! I must say my blog went from 74 views to 450ish over night!!! woohoo! 

Today I thought I would show the progress on my corn hole boards. They have been built, paint colors picked out, bags bought and decals bought, so now all I have to do is paint them and get them ready for play!

Here are the boards almost complete minus paint. My stepdad helped me build them.

This is a quick picture I made in Microsoft paint. Black outline, black triangle and black legs, then the white on the outside of the triangle. The pink drawing is supposed to be the Browning deer logo. My wifes board is going to have a pink deer and mine will be orange. We got matching bags too!

Another cool little thing I will be doing to the boards is adding some lighting to the hole and to the underneath of the board.

I ordered some white 3mm LED's from eBay. I then took a strand of old LED Christmas lights, took the LED's out of them and replaced them with the LED's I bought off eBay. I then dipped the tip of them into orange and pink paint so that way they would glow orange!

I also bought some El-Wire off eBay(I like eBay cant you tell?) Im not sure if I will be using this on the boards or not yet but this stuff is pretty cool. Its waterproof I have seen where people will sew it into their clothes it looks pretty awesome. 

Well thats all for the boards at the moment I still need to paint them so as soon as I do I will post the finished pictures on here.