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

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Is it possible to build 32 channel EEG devices based on the ADS1299 revisited?

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Last Updated on September 18, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

The OpenBCI architecture allows only devices up to 16 channels. But the ADS1299 chip allows for instance with daisy chain up to 97 chips in one chain. We have shortly reviewed several 32 channel devices, based on developments of Indonesian scientists, HackEEG and BEATS, a demo device from Chinese developers shown here in this picture:

But none of these 32 channel EEG devices is on the market. The only 32 channel EEG devices we know which are on the market are those from mBrainTrain and g.tec, which are expensive.

The community of people interested in such devices is small. The OpenBCI architecture comes to a limit with 16 channels, but not the ADS1299 chip. We came to the conclusion that the ADS1299 chip is not an outdated concept in the year 2024, altough many new devices also on the low cost segment are based on InfluxDB, as for instance Home Assistant. But of you are interested on the long term in low-cost high-quality physiological sensor devices, and building such devices is not your main goal in life, it is worth keeping an eye on the ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments. The many new demo device which appeared in recent years but did not come onto the market is a sign that building devices based on the ADS1299 is not very difficult, as compared to building devices based on InfluxDB, which is still time consuming. Some years ago, Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org started reviewing ww.openbci.com products. And he came to the conclusion, that these are device people want to make money out of it, altough it seems to be difficult. And sometimes they keep silent about their issues. And now we are at the same point with 32 channel EEG devices. the BEATS device looks interesting, but is not on the market. And we do not know why. A hypothesis is that the reason could be noise caused by the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a rather powerful SBC. And EEG devices do not need very powerful SBCs. A less powerful SBC or microcontroller could be the solution.

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