I've been playing Stepmania with one of those cheap soft dance pads, but I don't like how unstable it feels.
Now, I don't have much technical knowledge, but with a good guide I can do pretty much anything. Money is tight, which also doesn't help.
This:
https://www.applied-sciences.net/library/data/laserpad.pdf looks pretty cool, but I think that's a little to complex, unless the parts are cheap and assembling the circuit really isn't hard, which I don't know. I was thinking if I could find some simple motion sensors that would connect to a PC through USB, I could throw something together, but I can't find any.
Then I found this:
**broken link removed** and I think it's a little more doable. I want two pads though, with 8 arrows each, plus the center button. I'm not sure what to change in the circuit, or if I should just make multiple circuits of the same thing (one for each pad or something). And then I'll need different software. If I can just add more buttons to his that would be great, if not I have no clue what to do for that.
EDIT: This looks really helpful:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Capacitive-Dance-Pad/
Will I be able to just add more arrows to it, or will that not work with the Arduino Leonardo?