Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

099e. Which are the best low-cost high-quality EEG devices of the year 2024?

The ones Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org already found in the year 2020:

We did not find any newer and better low-cost high-quality EEG devices which is worth mentioning in which we trust to this date, after 2865 posts on www.petergamma.org.

OpenBCI Cyton

Information about the issues of OpenBCI Cyton can be found on Robert Oostenvelds blog:

  • No seller offers products from www.OpenBCI.com in Switzerland.

The ADS1299 EEG demo kit ADS1299EEGFE-PDK from Texas Instruments

  • can be bought at Mouser Switzerland for CHF 228.90:

https://www.mouser.ch/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/ADS1299EEGFE-PDK?qs=iFaFN7AS2WFPATY3SSqdeg%3D%3D

  • Mouser Electronics is rated as «good» out of 2,493 ratings on trustpilot.com

https://ch.trustpilot.com/review/www.mouser.com

  • A 32 channel EEG device can be built from from a FPGA PYNQ and four Texas Instruments ADS1299 EEG demo kit ADS1299EEGFE-PDK
  • The four boards need to be connected over daisy chain algorithms.
  • You can find information about it on Peter Gamma’s GITHUB page:

https://github.com/PeterGamma/Live-stream-of-EEG-sensor-data

Do these instructions not make the hearts of electronics engineers beat faster? But they freezes the hearts of physiologists like us.

  • And we do not know if these instructions and papers works better than those for HackEEG or PiEEG.
  • HackEEG and PiEEG are no longer available anymore, which makes us fear the worst.
  • The Texas Instruments ADS1299 EEG demo kit ADS1299EEGFE-PDK is also available in the year 2024.

This currently seems to be only alternative to OpenBCI Cyton which is available.

Unfortunately we still do not know how to make the “TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit” save for humans, also in the year 2024, altough we where advised in 107 post in the EEVBLOG in the year 2020 how to do this:

How to solve the “TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit is not save for humans” problem?

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/how-to-solve-the-ti-ads1299-eeg-demo-kit-is-not-save-for-humans-problem/

But we admit that we did not read all the 107 posts in the EEVBLOG, since we are physiologists, and not electronics engineers.