Why do product sellers who sell OpenBCI on eBay and Aliexpess & PiEEG not offer demo devices – are these modules faulty?

Last Updated on September 12, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

We do not know of any independent testers who have proofen the function of these devices. We therefore suppose that these modules have issues. To repair those issues is eventually not faisible for the manufacturer and still be able to make money out of it. The only option is then to repair those manually by the buyers, as we have suggested for OpenBCI modules sold on eBay and Aliexpress.

And the same applies most probably to PiEEG products. Since hardly anyone seems to use those, we suppose these have issues. And we invite everybody in testing those modules, publishing the issues in the PiEEG forum, and send them back if these modules are faulty. And eventually sooner or later we know also from PiEEG about their ussues, and how to repair these modules manually.

We have already speculated on www.petergamma.org that PiEEG modules have issues with noise caused by the single board computers they are attached to. But we have also suggested ideas how to resolve these issues, for instance by inserting a cable between PiEEG and the Raspberry Pi single board computer which is as long as possible, and to choose if possible small form factor single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 w, which do hopefully not cause a lot of noise.

We do not know of any independent testers who have proofen the function of these devices. We therefore suppose that these modules have issues. To repair those issues is eventually not faisible for the manufacturer and still be able to make money out of it. The only option is then to repair those manually by the buyers, as we have suggested for OpenBCI modules sold on eBay and Aliexpress.

And the same applies most probably to PiEEG products. Since hardly anyone seems to use those, we suppose these have issues. And we invite everybody in testing those modules, publishing the issues in the PiEEG forum, and send them back if these modules are faulty. And eventually sooner or later we know also from PiEEG about their ussues, and how to repair these modules manually.

We have already speculated on www.petergamma.org that PiEEG modules have issues with noise caused by the single board computers they are attached to. But we have also suggested ideas how to resolve these issues, for instance by inserting a cable between PiEEG and the Raspberry Pi single board computer which is as long as possible, and to choose if possible small form factor single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 w, which do hopefully not cause a lot of noise.