Is the OpenBCI Cyton with Bluetooth dongle the Raspberry Pi 4 of OpenBCI, a well established device which works, if bought from www.OpenBCI.com?
And is iEEG the Raspberry Pi 5 of OpenBCI, a device wich is interesting for us personally, but not available or risky to use? We asked a similar quetsion previously. The Raspberry Pi 5 would be currently the most interesting single board computer on the market for us personally. But it is little developed and risky, for the arguments we wrote here under www.petergamma.org, under the tag «Raspberry Pi:
https://petergamma.org/tag/raspberry-pi/
Similarly the PiEEG would be the most interesting OpenBCI product. But it is currently not available and has no community of users, as we described on www.petergamma.org under the tag «PiEEG»:
https://petergamma.org/tag/pi-eeg/
OpenBCI Cyton with Bluetooth dongle is well established and availalbe from www.OpenBCI.com. And you can also buy the 16 channel Daisy chain version there with Bluetooth transmisssion.
The OpenBCI flag ship for physiologists is currently an OpenBCI setup with 16 channels and WIFI. The WIFI shield is not available anymore from www.OpenBCI.com, but from Aliexpress and eBay. Some of the WIFI shields may have issues, but the shield can be repaired as described here:
The paper authors from South America which recently have published a paper which uses an OpenBCI setup with 16 channel and Wifi, have shown that it is possible to build such a setup and write a paper with it:
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/7/3763
To write a paper in the year 2024 in Sensors, also for physiologists like us. At a time when the OpenBCI WIFI shield is not available anymore from www.OpenBCI.com.
The paper authers where funded by.
Authors want to thank to the project “PROGRAMA DE INVESTIGACIÓN RECONSTRUCCIÓN DEL TEJIDO SOCIAL EN ZONAS DE POSCONFLICTO EN COLOMBIA Código SIGP: 57579” con el proyecto de investigación “Fortalecimiento docente desde la alfabetización mediática Informacional y la CTel, como estrategia didáctico-pedagógica y soporte para la recuperación de la confianza del tejido social afectado por el conflicto. Código SIGP 58950. Financiado en el marco de la convocatoria Colombia Científica, Contrato No. FP44842-213-2018”
The authors declare no conflict of interest, which does not mean that they did not have a conflict of interest,. They eventually reveived OpenBCI products for free in exchange for a paper.