Thank you for your interest in the new LaserPad dance step sensing system. With the rise in popularity of Dance Dance Revolution and other dancing video games, more and more gamers are finding it necessary to buy their own dance pad so they can play at home. For beginners, a “soft pad” is often sufficient, but will break after a week or so of heavy usage. More advanced players must buy a “hard pad”, but integral components in these tend to fail within 6 months of purchase, assuming reasonable usage. Most pads on the market are difficult or impossible to repair, causing players to lose interest, build their own, or exclusively play in the arcade. What if a pad could be made that would never break?
LaserPad attempts to answer this call, boasting a design that can stand up to a life-time warranty. A life-time warranty for a DDR pad? That’s right. No serious player in their right mind would buy anything else.
Our product is designed to satisfy even the most cynical consumer, aggravated by years of pads that break every couple of weeks. The optical step sensing system reliably determines when a foot hits the pad without any moving parts that are guaranteed to break. The step sensing system’s easily replaceable and low-cost components, coupled with its integrated testing unit, ensure its efficacy indefinitely. To top it all off, a system of interlocking pad segments make the pad easy to disassemble and move around, a feature no other hard pad can claim.
At a suggested retail price of around $125, this product will dominate the hard pad market.

Weight: 53 lbs.
Cost: $55

Please see design trade-offs and bill of materials for manufacturing cost details.

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