Reply to supernoob diy build thread

Hi guys, i've been checking out DJTT community s and website for quite a while whilst i should have been revising during exams, and drooling over the thought of a MF. Just want to shout that the site is a constant source of interesting information that i'm going to try to put to practise.

I'm looking to hopefully create a 4x4 set of arcade buttons, that will either eventually be mapped with sampler, fx, loops, cue points control.

However being a student has it's comebacks. I wouldn't have the time to do a DIY build normally, however i'm taking a course called the baccalaureate (or how ever you spell it) and in this course I have to create art, poems or projects and evaluate it at the end of the course in a presentation.

Being a music tech and physics student, (and a rubbish DJ), i thought i'd give this a go. I have to create a build log for the course, and the final product needs feedback, so this site is ideal to help me get both those two things.

Excuse if i go into too much pedantic detail; i'm probably going to end up more or less copy and pasting this build log into my coursework folder!
I'm looking to keep it budget and simple.

I'm sorry for the grainy pics - the iPod's camera is rubbish!

At the moment the case will probably be made out of lego (it just looks cool!):

I've robbed led's and wire from the science department:

got a few thousand resistors from my dad incase i need them:

Got a numpad available or old usb ps2 Buzz! controllers:


also of course got my 16 cheap as chips arcade buttons:

I'm leaning towards the numpad at the moment due to the simplicity of it, I'm a mac user and fear the use of controller mate like program for setting up buzz, but let me know if you believe that it's fairly straight forward.

I'll get a template out asap, then i've got to find my dad's soldering kit!

Cheers guys!