Last Updated on September 30, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Does the Neurosity Crown of computer scientist A.J. Keller strike you?
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
will not buy a Neurosity Crown. The more he studies OpenBCI architecture the more he comes to the conclusion that these modules are only of limited interest for developers at the university level. Most developers which use OpenBCI seem to be developers at the beginners level. But the deeper we dive into this architecture we follow the developers at the university level who doe not seem to use OpenBCI at all. And this for the following reasons:
- The ADS1299 chip is basically an outdated concept 10 years after InfluxDB is on the market.
- OpenBCI is expenive.
- The architecture is hardly developed further.
- It is difficult to develop this architecture further.
- Many of the things which can be done seem already be done.
- And if we study single products more in detail, such as the Greentek Gelfree S 3 which is offered in the OpenBCI store:
- Or OpenBCI daiys WIFI shield combos:
We can see that hardly any product sellers such as Adinstruments, BIOPAC, iWorx, g.tec has picked up Greentek EEG caps or OpenBCI modules. Neurospec in Stans Switzeland they say they do not know Greentek EEG caps, altough they are decades in the business. Schiller medical Switzerland eventually has built in modules similar to OpenBCI modules in their old, old ECG treadmills.
And we come more and more to the conclusion that many products which have the issue that they are not used by developers at the university level such as the Greentek Gelfree s3 cap or the OpenBCI daiys WIFI shield combos seem to have issues and are now sold eBay and Aliexpress, and the issues are not known, but discovered only slowly.
The longer our evalutation lasts the more we will only look here:
https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en
and nowhere else for new developments to not to waist our time with products which have issues and are sold on YouTube and in the web.