Enough talk—let the games begin!

We're off to a fast start thanks to some external Phillips screws on the right grip. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Backbone for having the spine not to glue this thing together. Huzzah!

Beneath the plastic outer shell, some colorful cables—and our first look at the Backbone One's internals.

We free the interconnect cable from its ZIF connector claw and unplug the two Lightning connector cables from the motherboard.

A few more Phillips screws later, we can extract the shoulder button, trigger, and our first PCB.