Main concepts
This section explains the ideas the Teslasuit C API is built on — what each subsystem senses or does, and the vocabulary the rest of the reference assumes.
Haptics & EMS#
Programmable electrical stimulation through the suit's electrodes — at low power it produces tactile haptic sensations; at higher power it drives EMS (electrical muscle stimulation) for muscle contractions and functional electrical stimulation (FES).
- Concept — how the suit produces haptic and EMS stimulation
- API reference — the Haptic API reference
- Example — play a haptic touch on the suit
- Body & channel map — which channels map to which body zones and muscles (Python-first tool, but the mapping is the same for the C API)
- Common Types — haptic parameters and types
Mocap#
Full-body motion capture from the suit's inertial measurement units (IMUs): skeleton positions, bone orientations, and biomechanical joint angles, streamed in real time.
- Concept — what Mocap captures and how
- API reference — the Mocap API reference
- Example — stream motion data
- Common Types — skeleton, raw IMU, and angle types
PPG#
Photoplethysmography — optical heart-rate sensing, with heart-rate variability (HRV) and raw pulse signals.
- Concept — what PPG measures and how
- API reference — the Biometry API reference
- Read heart rate — read live heart rate from a PPG node
- Measure HRV — read the Mean inter-beat interval
- Common Types — heart-rate and HRV types