points by thenthenthen 4 days ago | 0 comments
Dust it off! It was a weird device, mostly a toy? This new one is… yeah not sure. More of the same?
[–] internetter 4 days ago
[–] 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.
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.