Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
As far as costs are concerned, there is not much difference between these two options, if we choose the most affordable modules which are available. The advantage of OpenBCI over single EEG modules connected to InfluxDB is, that it has already an OpenBCI GUI with up to 16 channels, which works out of the box. If we connect individual TGAM modules to InfluxDB, we first have to write code to visualize and analyse the data, or at least write code to connect it to other platforms. This is a lot of work to start with, as the whole project which is described here is a lot of work. But the project which is described here has the goal to be an open source hard- and software platform which is sustainable, until a better and easier solution is available.