Many OpenBCI products are available now also on Aliexpress, but why not PiEEG?

Last Updated on February 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

We suppose that sooner or later more and more buyers will buy OpenBCI products on Aliexpress and eBay. We have written 230 posts in our journal about OpenBCI:

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

And we have written 73 posts about PiEEG:

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

This makes us a little bit of experts about OpenBCI and PiEEG. We think OpenBCI and PiEEG are currently one of the most low-cost high-quality physiological sensors on the market. And we suppose more and more costumers will by these products on Aliexpress and eBay. We often have read that products from www.OpenBCI.com are expensive. And products from PiEEG are not available anymore, altough it is one of the most interesting product which has the
ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments.

For years ago, Peter Gamma was asking in the EVBLOG:

How to solve the “TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit is not save for humans” problem?

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

We haven’t solved this problem to this date.

But after 292 posts in the EEVBlog we found HackEEG in the web:

And then we found also OpenBCI modules on Aliexpress

And we where very happy about this. We had several times good conversations with these Aliexpress sellers which where very friendly. Now for years later we would like to inform the Aliexpress sellers that there is a new and interesting product on the market, which is called PiEEG. We think it is currently one of the most interesting OpenBCI products.

Unfortunately PiEEG is not available anymore from PiEEG:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg#products

Altough it is very interesting. So why do Aliexpress sellers not offer PiEEG in their shops as well?