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points by nhecker 4 days ago | 0 comments
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.

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