From: JimmyB_101 (jiva_at_humboldt1.com)
Date: 2001-12-22 22:53:20
--- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, Doug Sutherland <wearable_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> sleeper75se wrote:
>
> > The point I'm getting at here, is that we can start
> > doing this as a kit: This group supplies the design,
> > and possibly a factory-made PCB. Maybe we can find
> > a kit-reseller to handle the details for us. Anyway,
> > the liability and the risk ends up with the user,
> > just as the designs published in an electronics
> > magazine.
>
> I think this kit idea is the ONLY thing that is really
> feasible without forming a formal entity (company or
> corporation). There are lots of problems with making
> a product, FDA is one challenge, another major issue
> is funding, and there are other serious roadblocks.
> The kit idea is the way to get low-cost EEG into the
> public hands. If a company needs to be formed to make
> and sell the kit, so be it.
Another option previously mentioned is having the project
published as a magazine project in say Circuit Cellar INK
(home of the HAL project).
Also check out the cost of the HAL from quite a few years
back. Apparently making it worthwhile to sell even as a
kit on a "for profit" basis adds considerable expense.
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