Making a PlayStation button necklace

I had a PlayStation 2 controller that was beyond all usefulness. I took it apart but unfortunately could not fix the problem inside. Rather than just discarding the whole thing, I decided to make a necklace with the D-pad and buttons.

I used the following:

1. Broken PlayStayion 2 controller
2. Rolson Archimedean drill
3. Silverline 1mm drill bits
4. A 1mm cord (I used a goat leather cord, but this is a bit soft and you may prefer something firmer, or a chain.)
5. An old pack of beads.

Of course, you can do whatever you like with your buttons and hang them on anything you want. You could even make a bracelet, anklet or keychain.

Start with these (yoghurt optional).

Drilling the D-pad is quite tricky. You need to make sure a hole comes out in the middle.

Try to ensure that you have a clean straight line all the way through a button, for ease of inserting a cord or chain later.

Clean the buttons, then grab yourself some beads and a cord of sorts.

Thread through the holes!

It's definitely quite difficult to do the D-pad. You might need to poke your cord through with a sewing needle.

Tah-dah!

You may wish to glue adjacent beads to each other so that they do not keep rotating to face all manner of directions.




In other news, I now have a television. Granted, it's the old television from my mother's house and it's certainly not state of the art, but it should mean that games can be played and reviewed!