You may want to look into coaxial Piezo cable.  It can be buried or built into structures.<br><br><a href="http://www.imagesco.com/catalog/sensors/piezocoax.html">http://www.imagesco.com/catalog/sensors/piezocoax.html</a><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2012 16:54, Anthony Scavarelli <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:anthony.scavarelli@gmail.com">anthony.scavarelli@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br></div><div class="im"><div><div>On 2012-03-12, at 4:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Anthony Scavarelli wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">
Hi everyone, long time lurker with a question ;)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am working on pitching the use of pressure pads outdoors to control<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
a custom software program and am curious if any of you have any advice<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on where I could look for such things (or better yet be able to make<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">my own so they can be custom sizes/shapes).<br>
</blockquote><br>Have you looked at piezo transducers?<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for any advice or links you can offer!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anthony<br></blockquote><br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>slainte mhath, RGB<br>
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