I used to use old playstation 1 controllers and grind off the components then solder in connection wires near the button pads, The PCBs were epoxy board that you could do that to.
However recently I got hold of 5 secondhand ones and upon opening them up I found theyare using a flexible printed circuit for the digital buttons and I don't think the plastic substrate will like heat at all. This flexible substrate plugs into a socket on the joystick PCB and the control chip is mounted here also.
I need to know what the sockets are called that I would use to plug this flexible substrate into (and perhaps who sells them) because salvaging and soldering onto the existing one is ... not practical lets say.
My wife doesn't see the point in me buying a $2.00 controller "if I am just going to wreck it".
However recently I got hold of 5 secondhand ones and upon opening them up I found theyare using a flexible printed circuit for the digital buttons and I don't think the plastic substrate will like heat at all. This flexible substrate plugs into a socket on the joystick PCB and the control chip is mounted here also.
I need to know what the sockets are called that I would use to plug this flexible substrate into (and perhaps who sells them) because salvaging and soldering onto the existing one is ... not practical lets say.
My wife doesn't see the point in me buying a $2.00 controller "if I am just going to wreck it".