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>>17210455
You'll need:
- 100mm white, domed buttons (do not buy plain buttons). Your best choice are Sanwa OBSA-100UMQ (https://www.akishop.jp/buttons/322-obsa-100umq.html#%23).). I use generic Aliexpress buttons at this moment. They work well, but I feel I'll replace it for Sanwa sooner or later.
- Brook Universal Fighting Board or PS4+ Audio Fighting Board. You'll connect all the buttons here (http://www.brookaccessory.com/Fighting%20Board/list.html).).
- For the slides, I recommend either 60mm domed buttons or, as I used, square 50x33mm ones. Typical layout is <- <- -> ->, but I've seen people using <- -> <- -> as well. These don't need to be quality ones since you don't need to press them fast enough.
- For directional buttons and such, you can either use regular 30mm buttons, as I did, or even smaller ones. It's your choice. I've seen people using a stick for directions, but I personally don't like it. You'll need, at least, buttons for Home, Share and Options, but I recommend using one for the touchpad button as well.

And well, you'll need wood, methacrylate, painting and so on. I found that the panel must be, at least, 50x32 cm. to accommodate all the buttons. And I found that paint is more expensive than I thought. I made an imagur album (not in a particular order or even commented) that can be helpful: http://imgur.com/a/nQow5

The artwork is just plain A3 paper sandwiched between the methacrylate (2-3 mm) and a wood plank. The artwork of the buttons are made by printing transparent sheets (the ones you would use on keynotes) and glueing them with water based paper glue.

And yes, took me around a month of work. Was totally worth it, though. I couldn't be happier.