What can www.openbci.com do to resolve the issues it has been critizised for & help at the same time PiEEG to be developed further? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on March 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

What is a sign that a low-cost physiological sensor device has a high quality? It must be used by users who are happy with it, and can do with without being harmed by using it. Harming for instance is, when someone is punished for using the device and increasing the value of it, and then has to pay a higher price for it.

Products from www.openbci.com are on the market since 10 years. But they have been critizised for instance by Fieldtrip developer Robert Oostenveld, who critizises the issues of OpenBCI Cyton:

OpenBCI issues discovered by Robert Oostenveld Associate Principal Investigator at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, the Netherlands

and Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org critizises OpenBCI Cyton as well:

https://petergamma.org/tag/openbci/

Fieldtrip developer Robert Oostenveld writes about OpenBCI Cyton:

«However, I had expected or hoped that by now (after 9 years of its initial release) there would have been a version 2 of the Cyton board with improved usability.»

The version 2 of the Cyton board is here, it is PiEEG. PiEEG does not have the many issues of OpenBCI, as described here:

https://petergamma.org/tag/pi-eeg/

To take up PieEEG in the OpenBCI shop would resolve the issues Robert Oostenveld and Peter Gamma described, and would help PiEEG to be developed further.

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