From: Moritz v. Buttlar (info_at_baltic-microsolutions.de)
Date: 2001-04-08 13:34:41
Hi !
Maybe we should start a general discussion about this to
get some new ideas and to see what everybody thinks.
I thought the cheapeeg was meant as a do-it-yourself kit in order to avoid
all kind of hassels associated with manufacturing and selling of medical
equipment.
If you sell a device you are the manufacturer and therefore responsible. If you
sell the parts separately and the buyer assembles it, heīs the manufacturer and
therefore responsible for the device.
> > My point is that we want to make a machine people can build by their
> own by
> > using our plans. This is different from designing a product that
> will be
> > manufactured in a factory.
>
> Is this our plan? If so, why are we doing this? The brainmaster
> designs are already free and cost $200 to build. I thought that the
> idea was to design a product and get it produced for us. Yaniv has
> approached manufacturers about building it (although I don't know how
> that's going). The only reason I haven't built a brainmaster myself
> is that I am too stupid to understand the instructions! Is our eeg
> for electronics experts only?
I didnīt know the brainmaster design is freely available. In my opinion itīs no
big deal to get an eeg manufactured from our plans. There are a lot of companys
around specialised in this: you send them the plan, wait a month and get a
couple of hundreds (or thousands) of devices. Maybe financing it would be a
problem. But in order to sell the devices legally it must be (at least in
germany) tested by a special organization to comply to safety norms.
Thatīs the expensive part ! You have to give it to somebody who certifies it.
I think it costs maybe 10000$ or more. It also has to comply to electromagnetic
norms (different test).
After it has been certified the hardware design mustnīt be changed (or you have
to certify it again).
Thatīs how I think the system works. But Iīm not an expert on this and I think
our next step would be to find such an expert who could help us.
Maybe we could distribute it from a country which doesnīt have such laws :)
Thereīs also a special newsgroup about these topics.
( sci.engr.electrical.compliance)
Maybe we should try to get help from there ?
Moritz
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