PiEEG – an abandoned prototype of Neurosity Crown or a device to build affordable alternatives to devices from mBrainTrain & g.tec medical from?

Last Updated on September 15, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

William Croft writes in the www.openbci.com forum about PiEEG:

«The PiEEG has a Github I believe. AJ Keller’s project never produced any products beyond his prototype. Not sure if AJ even had the software to drive the board. PiEEG comes with software.
For safety reasons, any EEG system should be either battery powered, or comply with IEC 60601 medical standards. Neither of these board comply with 60601. Nor does OpenBCI, but those boards ARE battery powered. I would be cautious with the PiEEG design. Some previous noise measurements I’ve seen, imply that they may not be complying with Texas Instruments “star ground” / multi-plane design standards (shown in the data sheet). And PiEEG recommends you connect the Pi digital Ground pin to the client. (As a noise reduction workaround.)»

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/3900/in-search-of-old-hardware-schematic-for-the-ads1299-breakout-board


There are some similarities between the Neurosity Crown and PiEEG. The Neurosity Crown consists of as far as we know of:

  • an OpenBCI Cyton module with modified size
  • a repaired OpenBCI WIFI shield with modified size
  • a single board computer such as the Raspberry Pi zero

PiEEG developer Ildar Rakhmatulin wrote he has spent several years with the development of PiEEG. He also gave instructions who to build your own device based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments by ourself:

Also Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has spent several years investigating devices based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments. This chip is not an abandoned prototype by Texas Instruments only used by some hobbyists in the www.openbci.com forum. Electronic engineers still use it to develop new EEG devices from. But most of the devices we have seen consist only of one or two ADS1299 EEG chips. But this chip has a great potential. Data from up to 97 EEG chips can be joined with daisy chain algorithms. And with PiEEG we suppose it is even easier. Can’t we build a device with as much EEG channels as we want from it if we are skilled enough?

Currently PiEEG seems to have issues with noise, if we look at the examples we have seen up to this date. But on the other hand PiEEG seems to be hardly tested, and we think it is worth testing it in depth. How issues with noise can be resolved, we previously made suggestions how to solve this:

https://petergamma.org/tag/pi-eeg

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