electric-stimulation 0.3.1

NI-DAQmx trigger generator for electrical stimulation with PyQt5 GUI

Electric stimulation

GUI to generate and modify a electric trigger send to a national instrument wich converts this to a electric stimulation signal designed for neurostimulation with a micro-electrode array.

Multi-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux.

The library is available on PyPI.

Installation (PyPI)

1. Open terminal as administrator
2. Run on terminal uv: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh (macOS/Linux) or powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex" (Windows)
3. Install virtual environment : run in terminal uv venv si_env --python 3.12
4. Restart your terminal
5. Allow script execution : run in terminal Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
6. Activate virtual environment: run in terminal source si_env/bin/activate (macOS/Linux) or si_env\Scripts\activate (Windows)
7. Install library : run in terminal uv pip install electric-stimulation

Run application

1. Allow script execution : run in terminal Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
2. Activate virtual environment: run in terminal source si_env/bin/activate (macOS/Linux) or si_env\Scripts\activate (Windows)
3. Run in terminal trigger-generator

Build a standalone executable (Windows: .exe, macOS/Linux: binary):

1. Allow script execution : run in terminal Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
2. Activate virtual environment: run in terminal source si_env/bin/activate (macOS/Linux) or si_env\Scripts\activate (Windows)
3. Using the command-line terminal, navigate to the folder where you want the .exe file to be located.
4. Build the executable in currentfolder/dist : run in terminal trigger-generator-build

The executable will be in dist/ (in the current directory).