Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Evidence that OpenBCI made in China does not work

Last Updated on April 19, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org found OpenBCI made in China products shortly before his lasts posts in the EEVBLOG, where he was asking for affordable alternative to products from www.openbci.com. The last post in the EEVBLOG was on June 21, 2021. This product is on the market now for almost 3 years.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/how-to-solve-the-ti-ads1299-eeg-demo-kit-is-not-save-for-humans-problem/100

  1. Stellarpower has issues with the OpenBCI WIFI shield
  • Stellarpower who tested OpenBCI made in China found realiablity issues with the WIFI shield, he could not resolve.
  • There are instructions available how to resolve this. But no independent costumers confirmed to this date that he managed to resolve the issues of the OpenBCI WIFI shield:

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/3502/cyton-wifi-packet-loss-noise-issues/p

2. jenelson had problems with the communication between Cyton and WIFI shield he could not resolve

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/19681#Comment_19681

  • altough he is a very experienced hardware developer he could not resolve this issue.
  • A solution would be to replace the connector between Cyton and WFI shield, but this is a lot of work. And nobody confirmed to this date that this works.

3. Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org does not know of a single OpenBCI made in China user who confirms that he is happy with it after about 3 years after it has been released

  • Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org is reviewing OpenBCI made in China since shortly after it came onto the market.
  • He does not know of a single confirmation of a user who tested OpenBCI made in China and confirms that it works and that he is happy with it.

4. No more than a view positive feedbacks can be found in product offers, altough it is no the market for about 3 years

  • If we look at product offers on eBay and Aliexpress, we find there not of a single product offers, which has more than a view positive feedbacks.
  • This is suprisingly view for a products which is on the market for around four years.
  • If there would be a product among those, would it not have many postive positive feedbacks, as many of the product offers on eBay and Aliexpress have?
  • Is this not an evidence that the product offers are pullet from the offer on eBay and Aliexpress after a view pieces have been sold, most probably because of negative feedbacks.
  • Are all of this products send back since none of them works?

5. No other sellers of electronic components than Aliexpress & eBay shops offer OpenBCI made in China

  • Other products are picket up by shops ins Switzerland such as Digitec and Disterelec, But OpenBCI made in China is not offered in a single shop in Switzerland.
  • Did many sellers test it and send it back?