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<\/a>LEDs in the Xbox 360 Chatpad(Click for more Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly photos (photo gallery retired)<\/em>…)<\/center><\/p>\n
While out at lunch today we swung by Best Buy<\/a> where I was both was hassled by loss prevention\u2020<\/sup>and where I acquired an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit<\/a>. This small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox 360 controller<\/a> (wired or wireless) is a pretty nice accessory and makes typing messages and filling out forms on the 360 far easier than using the on-screen keyboard.<\/p>\n After looking at it for a bit, I realized that the Chatpad has four data lines<\/a>, leading me to wonder if it is really a USB device and if the controller contains a USB hub. So, what did I do when I got home? I tore apart my brand new Xbox 360 Chatpad (photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n All of the photos can be seen here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, but the most notable ones are the ones which show its PIC16F883 microcontroller<\/a>, the individual key LEDs for specialized keys<\/a>, and plastic peg \/ inverted dome key design<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2020<\/sup> When leaving the Loss Prevention asshat demanded to see our receipts, and after questioning him briefly as to why he needed to see it, I took it out just to be nice, when he grabbed it from my hand, thoroughly checked it over compared to what I was carrying, then explained to me how it’s something he “has” to do, and that he “doesn’t check all receipts”. When asked if he picks who to check, he answered affirmatively, and when I asked why I was singled out for a subjective check he just walked away.<\/p>\n I’m still not quite sure how to deal with it from here, but what I should have done was simply not show the receipt and walk out the door. I’m not sure why I didn’t… Probably because I was talking with my coworkers who were standing there as well, and I couldn’t have just walked out to my car.<\/p>\n I partially feel like an ass for not doing what is right, and partially for having to deal with a jackass LP tool at Best Buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LEDs in the Xbox 360 Chatpad(Click for more Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly photos (photo gallery retired)…) While out at lunch today we swung by Best Buy where I was both was hassled by loss prevention\u2020and where I acquired an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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![small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox 360 controller<\/a> (wired or wireless) is a pretty nice accessory and makes typing messages and filling out forms on the 360 far easier than using the on-screen keyboard.<\/p>\nAfter looking at it for a bit, I realized that the Chatpad has four data lines<\/a>, leading me to wonder if it is really a USB device and if the controller contains a USB hub. So, what did I do when I got home? I tore apart my brand new Xbox 360 Chatpad (photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\nAll of the photos can be seen here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, but the most notable ones are the ones which show its PIC16F883 microcontroller<\/a>, the individual key LEDs for specialized keys<\/a>, and plastic peg \/ inverted dome key design<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2020<\/sup> When leaving the Loss Prevention asshat demanded to see our receipts, and after questioning him briefly as to why he needed to see it, I took it out just to be nice, when he grabbed it from my hand, thoroughly checked it over compared to what I was carrying, then explained to me how it’s something he “has” to do, and that he “doesn’t check all receipts”. When asked if he picks who to check, he answered affirmatively, and when I asked why I was singled out for a subjective check he just walked away.<\/p>\nI’m still not quite sure how to deal with it from here, but what I should have done was simply not show the receipt and walk out the door. I’m not sure why I didn’t… Probably because I was talking with my coworkers who were standing there as well, and I couldn’t have just walked out to my car.<\/p>\nI partially feel like an ass for not doing what is right, and partially for having to deal with a jackass LP tool at Best Buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEDs in the Xbox 360 Chatpad(Click for more Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly photos (photo gallery retired)…) While out at lunch today we swung by Best Buy where I was both was hassled by loss prevention\u2020and where I acquired an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8999-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
![the Chatpad has four data lines<\/a>, leading me to wonder if it is really a USB device and if the controller contains a USB hub. So, what did I do when I got home? I tore apart my brand new Xbox 360 Chatpad (photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\nAll of the photos can be seen here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, but the most notable ones are the ones which show its PIC16F883 microcontroller<\/a>, the individual key LEDs for specialized keys<\/a>, and plastic peg \/ inverted dome key design<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2020<\/sup> When leaving the Loss Prevention asshat demanded to see our receipts, and after questioning him briefly as to why he needed to see it, I took it out just to be nice, when he grabbed it from my hand, thoroughly checked it over compared to what I was carrying, then explained to me how it’s something he “has” to do, and that he “doesn’t check all receipts”. When asked if he picks who to check, he answered affirmatively, and when I asked why I was singled out for a subjective check he just walked away.<\/p>\nI’m still not quite sure how to deal with it from here, but what I should have done was simply not show the receipt and walk out the door. I’m not sure why I didn’t… Probably because I was talking with my coworkers who were standing there as well, and I couldn’t have just walked out to my car.<\/p>\nI partially feel like an ass for not doing what is right, and partially for having to deal with a jackass LP tool at Best Buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEDs in the Xbox 360 Chatpad(Click for more Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly photos (photo gallery retired)…) While out at lunch today we swung by Best Buy where I was both was hassled by loss prevention\u2020and where I acquired an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9003-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
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![plastic peg \/ inverted dome key design<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2020<\/sup> When leaving the Loss Prevention asshat demanded to see our receipts, and after questioning him briefly as to why he needed to see it, I took it out just to be nice, when he grabbed it from my hand, thoroughly checked it over compared to what I was carrying, then explained to me how it’s something he “has” to do, and that he “doesn’t check all receipts”. When asked if he picks who to check, he answered affirmatively, and when I asked why I was singled out for a subjective check he just walked away.<\/p>\nI’m still not quite sure how to deal with it from here, but what I should have done was simply not show the receipt and walk out the door. I’m not sure why I didn’t… Probably because I was talking with my coworkers who were standing there as well, and I couldn’t have just walked out to my car.<\/p>\nI partially feel like an ass for not doing what is right, and partially for having to deal with a jackass LP tool at Best Buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEDs in the Xbox 360 Chatpad(Click for more Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly photos (photo gallery retired)…) While out at lunch today we swung by Best Buy where I was both was hassled by loss prevention\u2020and where I acquired an Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This small keyboard which snaps on to the bottom of the Xbox\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9019-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}