XBOX 360 Controller D-Pad Spacer

Introduction This is a spacer designed to fix the notoriously imprecise d-pad of an XBOX 360 controller. Earlier revisions are especially susceptible to missing inputs, and I found that a handful of the controllers in my own collection suffered from missed key presses on at least one axis of the d-pad. This may not affect more recent controllers, and I did not experience this issue with controller revisions of at least “009”. This is due to primarily to deviations in the quality control of the d-pad rocker, which uses two small plastic extrusions on each axis of the d-pad, to compress a membrane that completes the circuit for the button press. Unfortunately, the plastic does not always compress the membrane enough such that it is able to complete the circuit. This results in a tactile “bump” on press, but a missed input that only completes if the user presses the button harder or more aggressively. To remediate this, a designer named OOOToys designed a spacer that adds additional heigh