Home Pump It Up Setup, possible?

Hi guys! I'm an Italian PIU player (pretty noob, S13), that lives reaaaaally far away from the nearest playable arcade. In few months it's my birthday and my boys wanted to gift me a way to play some PIU at home! Ofc I'd play on PIU Rise or something like Stepmania.

Do you think guys this is possible? Should we make a wood-setup (I saw some of em online), or buy something online? Anyways, with homemade setups, could I get better, and reach pro-levels? (S16-S18 etc...)

I saw some soft-pads online, but they are all made for DDR, and I don't even know if u could get good results on those. Maybe I should buy one and switch to (clearly worse) DDR ahahahahah?