Why can www.OpenBCI.com not what the Raspberry Pi Foundation can?

Last Updated on August 5, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The Raspberry Pi is a single board computer which is known all around the world. In recent years, Raspberry Pi had problems with shortage due to Corona which should be over soon.

Are Raspberries devices from which is possible to make a lot of money out of it? Especially from from private users? If so, would not Raspberry have found quickly other manufacturing places which do not have problems with Corona?

Is the situation of Raspberry Pi not similar with OpenBCI? Does www.OpenBCI.com make a lot of money out of their products? But still, although there where problems with shortage, Raspberry Pi resolves issues. But how is it about OpenBCI? What is OpenBCI without a WIFI shield which is open source, issue-free and offered by www.OpenBCI.com? The issue-free WIFI shield offered by Chinese sellers is as far as we know not open source. And what is OpenBCI without InfluxDB? And why is www.OpenBCI.com not capable to resolve these issues?

Raspberry Pis are developed and produced in UK, but part of the devices are also produced in China. OpenBCI is developed in the US and we suppose also produced. But now it also available from Chinese sellers on Ebay and Aliexpress, which have as far as we know nothing to do with www.OpenBCI.com.

Therefore we are asking the question, why is www.OpenBCI.com not capable to resolve problems similarly to Raspberry Pi? One difference is for instance that Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is present and gives regularly statements for instance about Raspberry Pi shortage and the Raspberry Pi 5.

But what is about www.OpenBCI.com CEO Conor Russomanno? Is he present and gives statements about other things than his 25 000 USD OpenBCI Galea? Statements for instance about the OpenBCI WIFI shield, OpenBCI and InfluxDB and the future of OpenBCI?