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Title: Build a better DDR?
Post by: Spaz Monkey on June 06, 2006, 12:22:20 am

http://inventgeek.com/Projects/dancepad1/overview.aspx

Originally shown on Slashdot: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/06/05/0643243.shtml

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Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: nullb0y on June 07, 2006, 10:27:28 am

that is one beautiful pad but... what happens when the button breaks and ur leg goes through the bottom of the pannel :dizzy: slicing your leg with cracked plexi?

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: shardian on June 07, 2006, 11:40:09 am

If you can put your foot thru acrylic as thick as they used, then you are a true man. ;D

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: nullb0y on June 07, 2006, 02:49:38 pm

i a big one lol ive broken many aracde ddr pads they dont let me in some arcades lol

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: blueboy on June 10, 2006, 09:41:35 pm

I built one of these a few years back..


http://www.bluemeanie.gq.nu/ddr.htm

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: nullb0y on June 11, 2006, 12:56:05 am

heh i went the cheap way and bought a metal pad... only 140 bucks for 2 shipped (seperate purchases) and im a big heavy guy so i never miss steps lol not that ive used em in a while... lol

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: HaRuMaN on June 11, 2006, 12:58:36 am

<keeps his mouth shut>  >:D

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: arcadepcnut on June 28, 2006, 11:50:01 pm

I like my cobalt flux and didnt have to build it :)

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: nullb0y on June 30, 2006, 05:23:03 pm

those cobalt flux are really expensive and they cut my feet up (my friends gf has em)

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: arcadepcnut on July 07, 2006, 12:05:17 am

wear shoes?! Its says to in the instructions. At least were socks man!
Expensive but totally worth it.

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: Stingray on July 07, 2006, 11:42:24 am

Quote from: nullb0y on June 07, 2006, 10:27:28 am

that is one beautiful pad

Awfully sloppy welding work if you ask me.

-S

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: Doomy on July 09, 2006, 12:18:03 pm

Quote from: Stingray on July 07, 2006, 11:42:24 am

Quote from: nullb0y on June 07, 2006, 10:27:28 am

that is one beautiful pad

Awfully sloppy welding work if you ask me.

-S

It is pretty sloppy but thats a real shite MIG welder hes using and to be fair, MIG doesnt have to look pretty to be VERY functional.

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: Stingray on July 10, 2006, 01:49:37 pm

Quote from: Doomy on July 09, 2006, 12:18:03 pm

Quote from: Stingray on July 07, 2006, 11:42:24 am

Quote from: nullb0y on June 07, 2006, 10:27:28 am

that is one beautiful pad

Awfully sloppy welding work if you ask me.

-S

It is pretty sloppy but thats a real shite MIG welder hes using and to be fair, MIG doesnt have to look pretty to be VERY functional.

No, it only has to look pretty to look pretty. If I put this kind of time & effort into a project, it's damn well gonna look pretty.

-S

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: arcadepcnut on July 12, 2006, 08:45:53 pm

Its not the welder (machine) its the welder (person). He didnt have the heat and wirespeed right for that thickness of metal. Just grind it off and start over. Thats what I do when my welds on my rock crawler look like crap.

Title: Re: Build a better DDR?
Post by: ChadTower on July 12, 2006, 08:49:50 pm

Dude just said it's not the welder it's the welder.   :laugh2: