TENS-Transcendance

Hardware design and code related to the development of a remotely-triggerable system of TENS muscle stimulation as part of the experimental dance / VR performance Transcendance.

The system extends an existing TENS muscle stimulator, the Promed TENS 1000S and makes it controllable with OpenSoundControl (OSC) via WiFi through the use of an ESP32 microcontroller.

Included in this repository

Software

• The Arduino code for the ESP32 microcontroller.
• The code for the Processing sketch which served as a proxy between the ESP32 and a TouchDesigner patch (not by me) that was heavily integrating most of the performance.

Hardware

• The hardware designs to split a single TENS output channel to up to 16 different target locations. The PCB was designed in KiCad 6.0.
• The additional libraries used in KiCad while designing the PCB are included in the repository.

Dependencies

The software dependencies are enumerated in the Arduino and Processing folders.