Build a Stepmania Dance Pad - My simplified design.

[brianz]

Wanna build your own DDR pad for your PC and Stepmania?

I've seen a large number of dance pad design on the web, all based on the same rather involved mechanical layout, and it seems that most involved some sort of dissected playstation controller. I decided to make my dance pad with an embedded PC keyboard encoder that will plug in to the PC directly - no PS/USB adapter required, and I've simplify the dance pad's mechanical design.

I've put together a web page to show my design.
Here's the details:

http://www.geocities.com/blhobbs.rm/dance_pad/

[NYDance]

Dude you are hardcore mofo. Thats pretty good stuff, but I would still prefer my CF

[htownboy101]

thats cool man, or u can buy a metal pad and a converter... ill stick with my CF, good job tho