Apple NesRemote

Step 6 Prepare Apple Remote for soldering

Now that you have completed the battery and IR LED part, let's go with the buttons control of the remote.

On the side with buttons, you'll notice a thin layer of plastic tape. In order to access the buttons, you'll need to remove it. By removing it, you'll also remove the tiny metal pieces that would press the buttons. From now on, I'll refer as 'naked remote'. Now you are in front of a naked remote. But, before soldering anything, you want to make sure the naked remote fits in the NES controller. The picture is to illustrate how I put the naked remote inside the controller. As you can see, it's tight both in width and length.

So, after struggling to put the naked remote down there, it's time for some precise soldering !

At this point, you can test if the modifications you made to the remote work. Point the IR LED in front of a WebCam, digital camera, iSight, and if the LED lights, then it works. If not, check the battery and the IR LED wires.

(05/18/2008) EDIT : I got a bug today. When I was pressing the area over the Select, Start and Nintendo section, the controller was doing the Left control. I added some electric tape over the pins and now, everything works great.