Matrix Arcade Style DDR Homepad
 

This is my homebrew Arcade Style DDR pad. It's not completely finished as you can see from the top part of the pad, but the rest is really just cosmetics and the pad is 100% functional.

The only goals I had while building this pad were:

1) Replicate arcade look and feel while playing

2) Attempt to be comparable to arcade pads on hard songs (10 feet+)

I loosely based the construction of my base on the Stoli design and went through several iterations of how the sensors would be setup, using variations of both the DDRHomepad and Riptide designs before settling on something of my own design, which is designed to mimic how the arcade sensors are setup.

Playing on it feels just like the arcade and you can see from the pictures that the pad works very well(7-8 Feet heavy AAA's and nice 9 feet AA's). I'll be testing it some more soon and be posting some more pictures and movies to show how it performs.

Eventually I'll be posting a tutorial on how I constructed this pad once I do it again myself, I wasn't entirely happy with the process in which I built this one and I believe it can be streamlined a lot.

If anyone has any questions feel free to e-mail me at
lluk[at]shaw.ca

 
Pictures of pad and sensor setup

Top shot Angle shot Arrow closeup Sensor setup Sensor closeup Construction diagram
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Testing scores

Ashleys' AAA!! Ashleys' AAA!! Ashleys' AAA!! Ashleys' AAA!! Ashleys' AAA!! I suck =( Ashleys' SDG!!
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Videos

NEW! So Deep Heavy AA
Alernative YouTube Link
 
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