Last Updated on March 21, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
How old is OpenBCI GUI and the Mind Monitor? Are students today not more interested in developing Python projects, than to use Android apps and GUIs which do not allow sensor processing? Components are there for such a community, but where is it? Is community of the students not in the Mind Monitor forum and the OpenBCI forum? Are the supporters of these communities paid for their support, and if so, are they worth the money?
Do not new communities grow naturally, as for instance the Home Assistant community, which has as far as we know no paid supporters, but is very alive, since Home Assistant usese contemporary soft- and hardware. But can we say this also about the Mind Monitor and OpenBCI?
Supporters from the Swartz Center of Computational Neuroscience suggest to use other products than Interaxon since the end of the Muse SDK. And William Croft says that OpenBCI has only an income from selling components. But how long will OpenBCI survive by selling expensive components which are often criticized to be expensive. Is it not time to look for alternatives also for students and university supporters, for instance to choose Python for EEG and EEG hardware which is optimized for their costs and not supported. To students need supported EEG device communities? Should students not be capable of finding the required information themselves, and build the required information databases themselves?