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Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by judge2020 »

kristopolous wrote: post #35
pugworthy wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What does it do? > It does whatever you want it to do An answer worthy of Zombo COM

It's an extremely marketing driven device and trivial to clone. Look it as a PC kind of - off the shelf components connected together with a proprietary case and a marketing department. And similar to the early days of home computers, there's plenty of kits you can buy to build your own.

Would probably be cheap to clone it for yourself, but not at scale:

> TI CC1101, the chip powering the Sub-Ghz feature, is in extreme shortage. To date, the supplier has shipped just a fraction of our initial order. The same situation is with our LED driver — TI LP5562. To overcome this we have to purchase these components on the spot-buy market at a much, much higher price (3-5x for CC1101 and 20-30x for LP5562)

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Post by cookingmyserver »

zhovner wrote: post #33
brink wrote: post #23

People are flipping these things on ebay for $400+. lol I think I'll wait for the second batch, but dang it, I want one.

I do not recommend you to buy overprice lots on eBay. We will open sale for wave 3 very soon. Leave your email on wait list here https://shop.flipperzero.one and you will be notified.

I was a backer and have received mine, thanks for all of the hard work! I am curios, now that you have the tooling and partnerships established, what is the turn around on a new wave of flippers?

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by NietzscheanNull »

I received mine recently, and I’ve been consistently impressed at both the build quality and overall attention to detail. I know many Kickstarter projects (and hardware startups in general) end up aggressively compromising on features and construction to meet deadlines and cut down on BOM costs, so I was very pleased to see no evidence of that with the Flipper Zero. It’s one of those products where you can immediately tell that a very passionate team invested a ton of time and took special care with the engineering and design process.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by seabird »

kristopolous wrote: post #35
pugworthy wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What does it do? > It does whatever you want it to do An answer worthy of Zombo COM

It's an extremely marketing driven device and trivial to clone. Look it as a PC kind of - off the shelf components connected together with a proprietary case and a marketing department. And similar to the early days of home computers, there's plenty of kits you can buy to build your own.

By that definition, every embedded device is extremely marketing driven and trivial to clone.

With devices like these, you're buying time. People doing reverse engineering for a living or as a serious hobby do not want to fuck around making their own. Robust hardware design/validation and supply chain handling are NOT trivial except for the most simple designs. The firmware is NOT trivial to recreate. The target market has already bought products that do most of the shit this device does, and now they can have a lot of it in one place instead of scattered across multiple devices.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by throwanem »

pbronez wrote: post #37

It takes a MICRO SD card! The documentation just says "SD Card" - don't buy the wrong one like I did lol

At this point I feel like that can just be safely assumed, since ~every Micro-SD card comes with a fullsize adapter, and Mini-SD no longer exists.

The only fullsize cards I even still bother buying are UHS-II ones for my cameras.

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