Last Updated on August 7, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Computer scientist and current Neurosity CEO has developed an OpenBCI WIFI shield which has issues and happily was repaired by Chinese developers and is now available from Ebay Switzerland:
- We suppose that OpenBCI Cyton and the WIFI shield are also part of Neurosity Crown which offers 8 EEG channels and a fast WIFI stream:
- If it is possible to develop a OpenBCI WIFI shield, where the sensor data stream is routed over WIFI, is it not also possible to develop an OpenBCI WIFI shield with for instance a data storage chip or a cache chip which makes OpenBCI modules compatible with InfluxDB?
- Raspberry Pi single board computers offer many Raspberry Pi shields to extend the functionality of Raspberry PI. Why should this not be possible with OpenBCI?
- If the current multiple current OpenBCI modules are attached to InfluxDB and sensor data are processed there, some parameters are missing, as for instance phase and coherence.
This new feature of OpenBCI would make it possible to build EEG devices from OpenBCI with more than 16 channels and would make it possible to attach those and use those with contemporary software platforms:
We are physiologists and we do not know the OpenBCI hardware and software in detail. William Croft from OpenBCI told us, that to use OpenBCI with InfluxDB would require a hardware modification. We therefore do not know if this problem can be solved by an OpenBCI shield. Easier than a hardware modification of OpenBCI is eventually to choose another hardware platform such as HackEEG or PiEEG to solve this problem: