Last Updated on August 21, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
The ADS1299 is a key component within the OpenBCI Cyton board, which was launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2013. Here we have a more recent demo with the ADS1299:
The ADS1299 is only available from Texas Instruments and has never been cloned. Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
reviewed low-cost EEG devices for the last several years.
But what was striking, that price to cost ratio did hardly change during the last years.
And we are asking: Did Texas Instruments buy many EEG devices around the world, to control the market and to keep prices high? EEG devices are mostly used for medical and research applications at the university level. Is Texas Instruments a company who gained control over the EEG devices we reviewed on www.petergamma.org?
So has Texas Instruments with the ADS1299 a monopole position? If that is true, is it not time to say good bye to the ADS1299, and turn toward products based on InfluxDB? Also for people who usually don t code and solder?
Reviewing over years EEG devices which seem to be hardly developed further was a very negative experience for us personally. On the other hand, around 10 years after InfluxDB started, these projects have become more interesting and easier:
https://petergamma.org/category/influxdb
And we should go more often to place like here to find our information:
https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en
Since what we find on YouTube and in the web and has not been peer-reviewed in a journal at a high level and we find hardly any new developments.