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Portable and wearable devices offer a promising solution, but the limited number of electrodes in specific regions can lead to missing channels and reduced BCI performance. To overcome these challenges and enable better integration of BCI systems with external devices, this study developed an EEG signal acquisition platform (Gaitech BCI) based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) using a 10-channel dry electrode EEG device. Additionally, a multi-scale channel attention selection network based on the Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) module (SEMSCS) is proposed to improve the classification performance of portable BCI devices with limited channels. Steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) data were collected using the developed BCI system to evaluate both the system and network performance. Offline data from ten subjects were analyzed using within-subject and cross-subject experiments, along with ablation studies. 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