Hi Rei...
the plastic boxes are from Radio Shack.... then I use knife and cut opening.... (or you can drill too...) those boxes are pretty good... but they are expensive... they're like $5 each !!!! (just plastic box !!!)
ps: they come in a lot of sizes....
those cables are cat5 eternet cables... (network cables) whatever you want to call it.... it has 8 different wires per cable... I use it because of 2 reasons.... I have extra in the house... and unlike plugs with pins... this are more fool proof.... you can bent a pin... but you can't really mess up the plug/snap cat5....
if you look at the joystick pics, you'll see there's a white box... that is actually a dual cat 5 jack... each jack can take 2 cat 5 cable... (16 connections...) for my joysticks... I have 8 buttons, select, start, 4 directions, and ground.. so, that is 15 connections... I made the extra ground also, so, I can have ground on each cat5 line....
http://store.yahoo.com/deepsurplus/catidcdualsu.htmlthis link is where I bought the dual cat 5....
what is happening is... all the buttons/joysticks are connected to that dual network jack.... (in a particular order).... then I just have to wire the interface (could be sidewinder/psx pad/... etc) in that same order.... then I can just snap them together.... (kind of like a homemade adaptor.....) this way, I can re-use the joystick hardware..... and save some $$...
So far, the pc ones and the psx ones are working perfectly.... when I'm done with my other stuffs, I'll come back and do a xbox one....
btw... a couple of those sticks if you recognized are actually converted from Mas stick.....
hope I answered your question...
good luck....
ps: I've returned the borrowed digi cam....
when I got my hands on it again.. probably after July 4... I'll post more pics.....