Last Updated on June 24, 2026 by pg@petergamma.org
We where reviewing OpenBCI products since May 29, 2021 on www.petergamma.org on 533 posts:
https://petergamma.org/tag/openbci/page/534
But what was the result of this? Products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments on Aliexpress and eBay with issues:
as well as from Ildar Rakhmatulin from Russia with issues:
Are products which are based on ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments at the end of the line? Starting from the products sold on www.openbci.com:
To the OpenBCI Galea for 25 000 USD:
And are also products from g.tec medical as the 32 multi-purpose EEG headset for 50 000 USD at the end of the line?
Products which are based on an outdated architecture which is not based on InfluxDB? And if we are hoping for Chinese sellers which are upset about OpenBCI:
What happens then? We went to the Sihlcity Shopping Center in the City of Zurich Switzerland this morning.
And there we went into the Coop Fooby at the Kalanderstrasse to have a coffee there:
And there we sah a Chinese businessman having a coffee in the Coop FOOBY.
Was he offered a free coffee there to challenge me?
With every post more about OpenBCI we come to the end of the line as well. Since with every post we suspect that someone else, some electronic engineers, sellers, etc, did already before us what we do here. And they came before us to the conclusion that products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments are at the end of the line? Even the OpenBCI Wifi shield?
But why? Since there is something superior to this? For instance Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org with his new device?
As well as InfluxDB, which is on the market now for more than 10 years. We where reviewing products based on InfluxDB since May 25, 2022 on 224 posts.
https://petergamma.org/category/influxdb/page/224
This is less then a half of the 533 posts we wrote about OpenBCI. But the longer the frustration about products which are based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments lasts, the more interesting are for us personally products which are based on InfluxDB. Although these are complicated for beginners, these products develop further. But where are new products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments?
Where are products from BIOPAC, Adinstruments, iWorx etc, which are based on the ADS1299 chip? We do not know of such products. So what is wrong with the ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments? An outdated chip, outdated concepts with special contracts, which makes products based on this chip unattractive for developers?