just so everyone knows: When you send in a system to Nintendo for repairs, they "reset the warranty timer." Meaning: repaired systems have a brand-new one-year warranty, starting from the date of your RMA. Normally I'd be angry that I need to send in my fourth (!) DS Lite, but it's been well...
1) Buy a bunch of broken 360s for dirt cheap.
2) Use the warranty-voiding "towel trick" that makes them work for another month or two.
3) Sell them online for less than EB's used 360s and claim (erroneously or not) that MS's warranty still applies.
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
Look around thrift stores or GS's used bin for an Xbox 1 pad and splice a spare USB cable onto it (it's really easy; the wires are even the same color). Solder it if you want it to be sturdy, but it's not required. Then install the XBCD drivers (google it). It will be cheap and it will be the...