The Open-source Dance Pad

Welcome to RE:Flex Dance, an open-source dance pad. RE:Flex Dance is designed to be a robust, high quality platform you can build out of readily available parts, with minimal tools.

Photo of a RE:Flex Dance Pad with LEDs showing arrows

Everything you need to construct and run one of these is contained in the links below.

For license details, please see license.txt.

GitHub Repositories

Hardware design: Fusion 360 design of the entire framework, 3D-printable parts
IO board: KiCad schematic and circuit board design of the IO board, which communicates with a PC and with the panel boards
Panel board: KiCad schematic and circuit board design of the Panel board, which reads the sensors and has a grid of 84 LEDs
IO firmware: Code that runs on the IO board’s microcontroller, orchestrates communication between PC and panel boards
Panel firmware: Code that runs on the Panel board’s microcontroller, collects sensor readings, processes and outputs data to LEDs
Python interface: GUI application letting you configure sensor thresholds, pick images to display on panels, monitor sensor input
reflex.dance: The very website you are looking at

Come Chat!

We have a friendly Discord server where you can discuss RE:Flex Dance pads and your own pad projects. Come hang out!