The known issues of «OpenBCI made in China»

Last Updated on June 7, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

3 very experienced developers worked on these issues, and Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org reviews those here.

Issues with the OpenBCI WIFI shield

  • alwayswearshats reported in May 2019 about in the www.openbci.com forum how to resolve those.

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/2108/measured-shield-regulated-3-3v-supply-has-6v-dip-at-1-second-intervals-with-resonant-ringing

Issues with the lack of documentation with this issue

  • Stellarpower from Scottland reported about Cyton + Wifi, Packet Loss / Noise Issues on
    January 2023 in the www.openbci.com forum:

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/3502/cyton-wifi-packet-loss-noise-issues/p1

  • Stellarpower has gotten to work an openbci made in China setup with 16 channels and wifi shield
  • But he had issues with the WIFI shield
  • He did not seem to know the instruction from alwayswearshats how to resolve this
  • We think it is worth studying the instruction from alwayswearshats and resolve the issues of the WIFI shield

Issues with the connector between OpenBCI Cyton and WIFI shield

  • Hardware developer Jenelson reported on September 2023 about problems with the connector between OpenBCI Cyton and WIFI shield of openbci made in China in the www.openbci.com forum:

https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/19681#Comment_19681https://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/19681#Comment_19681

  • He did not get it to work
  • But we think it is worth to continue where he stopped
  • A possible solution could be to replace the connector which seems to have issues

Issues with the www.openbci.com forum

  • openbci made in China is not supported in the www.openbci.com
  • people who did it all the same received often only negative feedback by supporters there.
  • It is better to build a new community for openbci made in china at another place than in the www.openbci.com forum

Lack of documentation of OpenBCI made in China

  • OpenBCI made in China cost much less than products from www.openbci.com
  • But they do not have a own documentation which is satisfying for us personally.
  • And they do not have their own community either.
  • Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has not yet a community either.
  • But he has documented mainly the issues of openbci made in China and why eventually nobody uses it

Stock market speculation and sculping with OpenBCI made in China

  • Only give negative feedback to avoid this.

PiEEG would be the better solution than OpenBCI made in China

  • But PiEEG still seems to undergo stock market speculation and sculping
  • OpenBCI made in China is on the market since several years, but did not find a community of users.

All of the OpenBCI made in China modules sold on eBay and Aliexpress seem to have issues.

  • They are on the market since several years.
  • But none of the offers has a lot of high ratings.
  • The offers are pulled from the market after a view sales and then reoffered again as a new product offer.

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