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one of the things that I think Microsoft has really nailed over the past couple years is their aesthetics especially when it comes to controllers they have done so many different cool designs whether you're looking at the tech series with this upcoming one the combat tech or one of my personal favorites to see a theives controller which is just incredible or if does another finger taste you can even design your own like this guy right here now the thing is though one thing they haven't done yet even with design lab is a clear now I've done shoulder placements before with Nintendo Joy cons and it turns out you can do the same kind of thing with Xbox one controller so I picked up a couple different designs and we're going to do some clear shell replacements and see how they look now when it comes to clear shell replacements on Xbox one controllers there is one little caveat and that's if you want to do a design for the Xbox one S design the only thing you could find right now our front shell replacements but if you're working with one of the older Xbox one controller designs these ones you can actually find full shell replacement sudden we do the front back and even all the buttons and everything so we're gonna try out both of those designs starting with the 1s because that's going to be the easier of the two now it looks like if you're just doing a shell replacement the setup is pretty simple all you have to do is remove a couple carts from the back of the controller to find some screws undo those and then it's as simple as lifting the faceplate off and switching it out okay so with all this off I should be able to just lift this all right so it did come with a screwdriver that worked but this is really tiny and cramped my hands so I instead went for grabbing our kid so if you end up getting one of these I believe the size we need to get is a t4 yeah t7 looks about right so TR 10 actually is 1 or TR 9 please controller the first steps are going to be the exact same what we're gonna do is open this stuff up and then remove all those screws this parts really annoying because even though it just snaps off kinda it's one of the situations are you part of your brain is like I don't want to break this but you also kind of need to or it's mental like I have that much resistance so if all we wanted to do was replace just the front and back of the shells to make a clear controller with all the buttons and stuff which honestly I think would look better really simple same thing we did last time but we kind of want to see what it's like to actually replace all the sticks and buttons everything so we're gonna do that too got it awesome okay so I had to leave the black button in because this thing was misshaped and I also left the original Xbox button in here because well it just wouldn't be right making Xbox controller with a clear thing right here it doesn't make sense so I'm leaving that in one thing you careful when you're doing the backshell replacement one thing that's still stuck to the back of these is these little strips for the batteries so you'd have to take these out and put them on the new back that you're attaching there we have it Laer Xbox one controller so I got to say doing just the main shell is really easy but if you want to start going more in depth with all the sticks and but well actually this expend that bad either it was mainly the button shoulder buttons and if we want to take the time to do these ones it's a lot more time-consuming and takes a lot more effort but to just use a main shell it actually looks pretty good I might even reopen this and switch back to the regular sticks just so I have this main body look you know what really interesting thing I learned while doing this exchange is that well some of the basic ideas are very similar to how you do it on say a joy con the difference is in how they assemble these controllers really issue different challenges I mean the joy cons definitely need a lot more precision and kind of my new things because it's all packed into one little controller whereas this everything is done with lots of different clips and tension kind of stuff so take a lot of time just trying to make sure that everything lines up just the right way and just applying pressure to well everything if you want check out doing this for yourself I'll put links down below I gotta say honestly I kind of like the look of the 1s one better we're so keeping this you know matte color on the back and you can obviously use it different 1s controller like a white one or one of the color designs but then having the clear so you can still see all the kind of cool stuff going on on the inside of the controller so yeah check it out not that hard but possibly really hard if you want to be extra