The best kittens, technology, and video games blog in the world. That's an idea I had for a very long time - connect a DDR dance mat to some music generation software so that people would control the music by dancing. Step first is getting data from a dance mat. Most dance mats these days are USB HID devices. Their data can be read from /dev/input/event<number> (generic HID interface) and /dev/inp
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