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Lots of (MIDI) controllers are out there, both commercially as well as open source.
This list and images are the ones I feel have interesting aspects and are an inspiration.

Ableton Push
Novation Launchpad MKII
Pearl Malletstation

MalletKAT

Roger Linn Design Linnstrument
Roland SPD-X

Hexboard midi controller
Melodicade MX
Striso

https://hackaday.io/project/176712-drumidy-electronic-midi-drum-controller
https://github.com/ast/keyboard
http://www.ucapps.de/
https://bitbucket.org/ulph/fatar88lux/src/master/
http://wiki.midibox.org/
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/high-resolution-midi-controller/

I searched the fabacademy index to see if there are related Final Projects made in the past that could be of interest. I found Expressive Milling Interface by Luca Giacolini out of Toscane.

Also interesting is this research of velostat arrays forming a mat: # A Velostat-Based Pressure-Sensitive Mat for Center-of-Pressure Measurements: A Preliminary Study Martinez-Cesteros, J., Medrano-Sanchez, C., Plaza-Garcia, I., Igual-Catalan, R., & Albiol-PĂ©rez, S. (2021). A Velostat-Based Pressure-Sensitive Mat for Center-of-Pressure Measurements: A Preliminary Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5958. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115958