Last Updated on February 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
In the example of Raspberry Pi we have seen what a crisis like Corona can to do a pruduct. For several years Raspberry Pi’s where not available new from Rasperry Pi. Other single board computers where available also during Corona, such as the Orange Pi5. Why did Raspberry Pi have a crisis, but not Orange Pi? Raspberry Pi’s are partly fabricated in UK, but some also in China. Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton once said in an interview, that it was the toughest decision he had to make to stop offering Raspberry Pi’s for private users during the Corona Crisis. We suppose he had to do this for economic reasons.
Could he not have let produce the Raspberry Pi’s fabricate at other places, as for instance in Switzerland, where Corona was shorter as at other places due to Coroan vaccination? He could, but the Pi’s which whould have been fabricated in Switzerland would eventually have a very high price.
The other product which was affected by the Corona was Adam Feuer’s Hack EEG:
Adam Feuer wrote on his site that his HackEEG was very successful, and was used for instance at Universities such as Harward and Stanford. But then the Corona Crisis came and HackEEG was not available during Corona as well, similar to that Raspberry Pi’s where not availalbe during Corona either. But when Corona was over, HackEEG was not available anymore:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/starcat/hackeeg#products
But then PiEEG from Ildar Rakhmatulin was announced. We have here the latest information from PiEEG:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg
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Mar 15, 2023 How to make your own Measurement HatIn the PiEEG news it says:
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We are currently working on the creation of the next generation of the PEEG device. There will be an announcement about this soon:
But we haven’t heard anything from PiEEG developer Ildar Rakhmatulin since a long period of time. We expected that PiEEG was released shortly after it was finished. But this was not the case.
PiEEG was intruduced by by Les Pounder on tomshardware.com on March 27, 2023:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/control-a-raspberry-pi-with-your-mind-and-pieeg
But then PiEEG was only available starting from November 2023 with 4 channels, and 8 channels where announced for mid 2024. A first batch of four channel PiEEG has been shipped in November 2023, and a second batch of 4 channel Pi EEG was announced to be shipped at the beginning of 2024.
Why did PiEEG start shipping so late? Did the manufacturers of the chip only want to ship it so late to be able to make money out of OpenBCI modules as long as possible, until all OpenBCI users by PiEEGs, since it is superior:
But nothing happenen in this direction. On the contrary, suddenly on the PiEEG site it says Pi EEG is no longer availble:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg#products
Will Ildar Rakhmatulin bring it back? Would he not have written there: «out of stock», or «currently unavailable». But he has not written anything in this direction.
Was PiEEG a new lure offer to find out how much money can be made out of products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments?
Ildar Rakhmatulin also has published an instruction how to How to make your own PiEEG Measurement Hat:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg/updates/how-to-make-your-own-measurement-hat
But we as Swiss do not trust in these kind of instructions and offers for the following reasons:
We often heard that products from www.OpenBCI.com are very expensive. But then we found most of the products of the www.OpenBCI.com shop also on Aliexpress and eBay which is great. If these Aliexpress and eBay shops would offer PiEEG next to OpenBCI as well, we would highly appreciate it.
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