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Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a cracked carbon trace in a game controller? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by over_clox@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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It's the trace going towards the mode button, so I'm pretty sure resistance won't exactly be critical over a ~3mm gap, as long as it recognizes when the plunger button is pressed down.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Those all sound like a good set of options indeed. I'm kinda hoping to be able to use silicone glue, but any which way, I'll be testing on sample cards first before applying anything to the board.

Unfortunately, even if I find the metal trace it connects to, the very end of the carbon trace is a dead end, it functions as one side of the rubber plunger button contact pad. So the fix has to be carbon trace friendly, soldering simply isn't an option here.

Thanks for the thoughts and advice 👍