Last Updated on February 15, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
We are very happy about that OpenBCI products are now sold also on Aliexpress & eBay, especially for those who are on a budget. Four years ago after 292 posts in the EEVBlog:
After that we found OpenBCI modules on Aliexpress, and we where very happy about this. We do not know if this had to do something with our posts there, or if it was a coincidence. And today four years later we are asking:
Is OpenBCI suitable for scientific studies? We want to know this, since we are scientists?
It seems that Chinese scientists have already tested this. Since we found these pictures in the web:
Scientists wo do test the brainwaves of animals with OpenBCI
The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) is against tests with animals, if they can be avoided. As Zen priest Vanja Palmers from the animal protection center in Felsentor in Switzerland is against such tests:
https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers
We hope that Vanja Palmers also reads our journal. And we want to make it absolutely clear that we do not do any tests with animals in our institute. We do not want to do something which Vanja Palmers also supports. Since meditation centers as the Felsentor Reatreat Center are very rate in Switzerland. And we think all meditation centers in Switzerland should stand together and co-operate. But we are happy to know that OpenBCI is also suitable for scientists, since Chinese researchers already tested this.
So that Flavio Frohlich, PhD | UNC Neuroscience Center in US:
Who studied electronic engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Zurich can use OpenBCI for his research projects, too. We recently where able to give some information to Flavio Frohlich about how to use OpenBCI with a Raspberry Pi
And we are happy that the physiology students of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Peter Gamma from the Meditation Reserach Institute Switzerland (MRIS) can use OpenBCI for their scientific studies, too, since Chinese scientists already tested this with animals. And we hope that these scientists have taken the rights of the animals into consideration very carefully.