Last Updated on March 24, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
- Since we asked on the EEVBLOG for affordable alternatives to products from www.openBCI.com:
- Many new and interesting products came onto the market with the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments.
HackEEG
- First we had HackEEG from Adam Feuer. It was interesting for us personally. But the architecture which is based on the Arduino Due was challenging for non Arduino Due users as us.
- Furthermore, HackEEG seemed not much more like a demo products. A view of those where sold to top universties around the world, and then it was gone due to Corona. It was announced to come back after Corona, but after Corona it was gone completely.
OpenBCI made in China
- Then OpenBCI made in China came onto the market:
- OpenBCI made in China was affordable, available, and started at 230 USD. But due to issues with the WIFI shield and other issues such as communication problems between WIFI shield and OpenBCI Cyton, almost no one exept for highly skilled expert seemed to have used those, wrote about the issues it has and seemed to have given it up.
PiEEG
- PiEEG was intoduced about a year ago, but it was available only starting from November 2023 only for a short period until it was pulled from the market again.
PiEEG made in China
Happily we can announce now that PiEEG is also available from Elecrow in China. And we hope that the availablity will be guarrantied and there will be not stock market speculation with it. And if
this turns out to be true, and the product is of high-quality, will there remain any users who continue to buy products from www.openbci.com, such as the OpenBCI Cyton with a 10 year old architecture which is sold for 1 000 USD in the OpenBCI shop, which is 2.85 x the cost of PiEEG with 8 cannels from Elecrow which is sold for 350 USD?