Last Updated on February 16, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
| www.OpenBCI.com | OpenBCI made in China | |
| shop | OpenBCI shop | eBay & Aliexpress |
| price (USD) | 500 – 2000 | 230 – 700, and up to 2000 |
| price stability | stable | stock market speculation, but stable low prices to this date |
| warranty | a view month money back warranty | Life-time warranty for some products on eBay |
| available since | Around 10 years | Around 4 years |
| uptating issues | not the Wifi shield | Wifi shield was made available and is updated |
| react on user wishes | pick up user wishes in the web, pick up products we review such the Greentek Gelfree S3 cap | yes, pick up user wishes in the web, also documentation was updated upon user wishes, label products as if they where designed especially for us such as “for research and development” |
| support forum | yes | no |
| documentation | yes | no |
| location | USA | China |
| established | well established | not very well known yet |
| new developements | we do not know of such | update products |
| new products in shop | yes | |
| newsletter | yes | no |
| community | yes | no |
| user feedback option | trough forum | through Aliexpress feedback form |
| communication | very friendly | |
| issues | – controversial, accused for the violation of the unwritten rules for open source hardware (which is not illegal, but an issue) – We do not know who is behind it, – no adress is given – no phone number – can long-term products be developed with these products or will it be gone tomorrow? – A lot of different shops which seem to be connected which move their products | |
| more precisely | Not declared from where the ideas for their products are. People critizised it to be a “clone company”. Ideas and pictures seem to be taken over from www.OpenBCI.com without asking for permission from www.OpenBCI.com | |
| user complaints | a user complaint that they sent a wrong product which was not worth sending back to China (they sent a WIFI shield instead of a Bluetooth dongle) | |
| remarks | Is it a shop for for students under the direction of William Croft from www.OpenBCI.com? | Is it a shop for students under direction of students? Is it associated with a company or a university? |
| products which are offered | – Ganglion – Cyton – with Bluetooth with transmission – etc. – new products such as cGrid around the ear, etc. | – Cyton – newly made developments with up to 16 channels. – Bluetoth and Wifi transmission – Some products seem as if they where not designed to be sold as products, but for developers |