5 comments

  • kreelman 52 minutes ago
    Great project. Put up a small issue on Github for a couple of the links in the article.

    https://github.com/Cerelog-ESP-EEG/ESP-EEG/issues/1

    A quick look over the other links looks like they're okay, follow them instead for the moment.

    • Scene_Cast2 46 minutes ago
      If anyone is interested, I'm actually in the process of launching a similar board. Much lower noise (by about 5x, custom AFE), tuned for load cells, 4 simultaneous-sampling channels.
      • dang 1 hour ago
        Related:

        Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502051 - Jan 2026 (21 comments)

        • phoronixrly 2 hours ago
          Cool. What are useful aaplications of diy EEG?
          • kreelman 27 minutes ago
            In Africa, clever locals built a humidy crib from car parts. It ended up not working as a product, but a great idea. In the link below, its celebrated as a failure to learn from.

            https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140430-why-bad-inventio...

            There's another affordable humidy crib here, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/25/i...

            I think EEGs (Electro EncepheloGraph) can produce a far more detailed, brain related view of what an ECG (Electro CardioGraphs) can produce. An EEG can of course look into many other brain related issues.

            Creating a low cost version of an EEG will hopefully at least provide some thoughts to the engineers of commercial EEGs.

            Commercial devices are tied down to providing

            - Full checks of the software and hardware design,

            - backwards compatibility for devices over their lifespan

            - A full medically based software/hardware quality check,

            - Providing very detailed documentation,

            - doing a full test cycle around the device

            - Interacting with doctors and health experts to fully characterise the domain and typical device use.

            • glaslong 53 minutes ago
              Could do more accurate but less comfortable sleep tracking
            • genxy 1 hour ago
              tl;dr it uses

              Texas Instruments ADS1299 (24-bit, 8-channel) analog-digital converter

              There is no way to do what that chip does for less, maybe 7$ less but then not as good. They have priced it perfectly and I hate them for it.

              https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...