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points by ipkstef 4 days ago | 0 comments

i have my og flipper gathering dust :tears:

Dust it off! It was a weird device, mostly a toy? This new one is… yeah not sure. More of the same?

> It was a weird device, mostly a toy?

While I do agree it was/is weird, and it was/is hard to qualify, toy isn't the word I'd reach for. I find myself using it for some odd task once every few months. Cloning a keycard, temporarily standing in for a broken remote, etc. I'm glad I have it, but I was given it for free and I wouldn't pay for it.

[–] nhecker 4 days ago

When folks ask me what it is, my answer is 'an electronic Swiss Army knife', which is the best analogy I've been able to come up with so far. The Flipper Zero isn't necessary the best tool for any one specific job, but it's a really good tool for doing a lot of different jobs acceptably.

[–] user_7832 4 days ago

It's more of a "wireless swiss army knife", I think?

I've wanted a device that could for eg spoof itself as a USB device (I needed to boot linux and thought a computer instead of a pendrive would be cool) and went down a rabbit hole of the hardware requirements. I doubt the flipper (zero)'s processor could do that kind of work tbh.

[–] duskwuff 4 days ago

> This new one is… yeah not sure. More of the same?

Not even. It's an ARM SBC in a weird case. The F0 was interesting because it had a bunch of oddball radio/IO peripherals; F1 doesn't seem to have anything comparable.

[–] s3r 4 days ago

F1 will have m2 and gpio modules, at the very least.

https://flipper.net/pages/flipper-one

[–] nja 4 days ago

Same! I'll occasionally use it for something just to get stared down by an angry dolphin :/ (Most recently, to verify the microchip in our rescue)

It really bugged me that one of its selling features was the ability to open doors and gates and such, but it refused to open my garage door (which has an '80s pre-rolling-codes old fashioned signal, but it's within the standard bands) because of some FCC technicality. I heard there was some third-party firmware that enabled such things, but it made me wary that it might be illegal to install...

[–] pcurve_ 4 days ago

same, I assumed it would have full support for nfc which is the protocol I care most about and ordered via kickstarter

only to find out nfc-b would never come

meh