Alexandre Barachants mission to bring low-cost, Open Hardware, Research-grade EEG to the masses – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on January 26, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Alexandre Barachant wrote on his personal web site about Brain-computer interfaces and EEG signal processing:

“My mission is to bring a low-cost, Open Hardware, Research-grade EEG to the masses”.

https://alexandre.barachant.org/

Alexandre Reverse-Engineered the Muse EEG headband Bluetooth protocol on Jan 27, 2017:

https://alexandre.barachant.org/blog/2017/01/27/reverse-engineering-muse-eeg-headband-bluetooth-protocol.html

and then developed the Muse Lab Streaming Layer interface for fun and in it s spare time over the weekends with one of his friends:

https://github.com/alexandrebarachant/muse-lsl

This project is a project which is alive, issues are discussed and resolved, and Alexandre Barachant has 482 followers on his GITHUB page:

https://github.com/alexandrebarachant

Robert Oostenveld wrote us, that he uses the OpenBCI Ganglion and the g.tec medical Unicorn Black instead of the OpenBCI Cyton, since he had some problems with OpenBCI Cyton.

If we study the chronology of Alexandre Barachants EEG developments, we can see, that after he developed the Muse LSL after Jan 27, 2017, he tested the OpenBCI Ganglion on Mar 2, 2017:

Hands-On OpenBCI Ganglion on Mar 2, 2017

https://alexandre.barachant.org/blog/2017/03/02/Hands-on-OpenBCI-Ganglion.html

We do not know of any further EEG developments of Alexandre Barachant, for instance that he uses the g.tec medical Unicorn Black now. According to the chronology of Alexandre Barachants EEG developement, we can see that Barachant first used the Muse headband with Lab Streaming Layer, and then tested the OpenBCI Ganglion, and then was happy with the Ganglion.

Robert Oostenveld wrote us, that he turned from OpenBCI Cyton to OpenBCI Ganglion and the g.tec medical Unicorn Black.

Alexandre Barachant tested the OpenBCI Ganglion, and Robert Oostenveld wrote us that he is happy with the OpenBCI Ganglion and the Unicorn Black. We conclude, that Alexandre Barachant as well as Robert Oostenveld are happy with the OpenBCI Ganglion, and that therefore the Ganglion is also an EEG module with is worth to be reviewed in a high-quality scientific journal.