Last Updated on July 2, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Wireless Mobile 16-channel EEG System for Researchers
But does this device not look as if there was OpenBCI inside?
We have reviewed many low-cost high-quality physiological multi-sensor devices in recent years. But similar to the Raspberry Pi s: is there really an alternative to products from www.openbci.com?
Our finding is that hardly anyone seems to use OpenBCI for physiology. Although it has the potential to be used for it. For us personally, who are interested in fast gamma brain waves, the lack of the Wifi shield is a major issue of OpenBCI.
And we invite you to test if you find a solution for the WIFI shield.
The Wifi shield has only view components:
And there is an example of someone who was able to repair the Wifi shield:
If we really need the Wifi shield, it is eventually worth it, to buy one on eBay and Aliexpress, and to some experiments with it, to find out if we get it to work.
www.openbci.com does not offer the Wifi shield anymore, because it has issues. And nobody could convince us to the present day, that OpenBCI modules sold on Ebay and Aliexpress can be made to run without issues.
Development in the field of physiological multi-sensor devices is very slow. InfluxDB is on the market since more than 10 years. But we hardly find any low-cost devices for physiology.
For us personally, it is eventually worth to study devices up to 16 channel with Wifi transmission. And have an eye on new developments based on InfluxDB, which seems to be very slow.
If you have a look at the devices from iWorx: do most of them not look as if they where designed many years ago? But if we look at devices from Neurosity, of mBrainTrain:
Even the choice of the name of these products: we are asking: do these companies have some inner conflicts? And do they really want to build devices for eternity, as the Swiss usually do?