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Technology My Guides Wiimote "A" Button V2
| Wiimote "A" Button V2 |
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| Written by Kyle Powers |
| Sunday, 17 August 2008 13:13 |
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Gooooooooood day all, In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to light up the A button! You may be thinking, how does this tutorial differ from your other one? Well, this one is a lot more complicating and requires some damn decent soldering skills (and extreme patience). This tutorial incorporates the use of 4 0603 SMDs. Disclaimer- I am in no way responsible for your actions. Supplies- Wiimote Soldering Iron (I used a Weller 25w) Soldering Sponge Solder (Rosin Core/.022dia) Wire (I used either 24awg or 26awg.. 30awg would work too) 0603 SMD color of your choice* Resistor* Tri-wing Screwdriver 2 writing utensils/pens (one slightly bigger than the other) *In this tutorial I used an 0603 blue SMD (3.3v). I have yet to test an SMD that requires 2.1v (such as Red). Assuming that the wiimote outputs 3.3v, you'll need to use an 15ohm 1/4w resistor to properly power 4 2.1v 0603 SMDs. Where to get a Tri-wing Screwdriver- www.sickmods.net www.modchipman.com www.modchipstore.com www.ebay.com My tri-wing screwdriver looks like this-  Where to get SMDs- www.sickmods.net www.lsdiodes.com www.phenoptix.co.uk www.ebay.com SMD Polarity-  Before we start, I've read that some wiimotes are incapable of being modded. This is indicated by a series of numbers printed on the wiimote's PCB. Just take off the battery cover, remove the batteries and take a look. This wiimote is moddable-  However, I've also read that it doesn't matter.. but alternate power sources may have to be used. I'm not sure. Lighting Up The A Button Step 1- Disassembling your wiimote: Use this tutorial- Link Step 2- Prepping your wire: What I want you to do is take your wire.. cut 2 strips.. approximately 3 inches long (the length doesn't particularly matter). Then I want you to completely remove the insulation stuff. Hopefully you'll get something like this-  Step 3- Prepping your wire (continued): Now I want you to put your pens to good use! I want you to take the wire you just prepped and wrap the wire around the pen to make a nice little circle. Now do this with the other wire.. but to your bigger pen.. making a slightly bigger circle. Once you got both circle made.. where the wires crosses itself, I want you to solder it (to make it a permanent circle).  Step 4- Soldering your SMDs: Take 1 SMD and solder it to the smaller circle. It doesn't really matter which side gets soldered.. it's up to you. I soldered the cathode (negative) side to the smaller circle. Repeat this 3 more times to get something like this-  Step 5- Soldering your SMDs (continued): Now that your SMDs are all soldered on one side.. take the bigger circle you made and place it around/under/outside the smaller circle you made. Solder the other end of the SMDs to the outer circle.  Step 6- Prepping for install: What I did to prepare for install was cut away some of the outer circle. I then soldered a wire to the outer circle and a wire to the newly exposed inner circle. It looked like this-  Step 7- Installing: -You have a couple of options for install. You can of course install to the regular ol' power source points-  -You can solder to wires from previous mods (this is what I ended up doing) -You can use this with the fader mod- Link -You can solder to the rumble points, so that it only lights up when the wiimote rumbles-  Step 8- Testing: Go ahead and put the wiimote's PCB back into the bottom half of the casing. Plug your batteries in and push the B button. Assuming you didn't do the rumble install, it should light up!  Step 9- Reassembling: Now that you know it works, go ahead and reassemble it. Please refer to my disassembly tutorial if needed. Step 10- Final testing: Now that it's completely back together.. go ahead and test it. This is mine- Sorry the pictures aren't very clear. My camera couldn't focus while everything was fading!       Here's a video of everything fading- Link I hoped this tutorial helped! Extra Thoughts- This wasn't as bright as originally intended.. but I believe this is due to the fact that mine is hooked up to the fader. You can't see it that well in day light.. but it's quite noticeable in the dark. I'd definitely like to see someone do this with it hooked up directly to the power source points. Happy modding! |
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