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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 #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much better thanks. I see now what my mistake was: clicking the logo in top left of TFA takes you to blog.flipperzero.one when I was expecting it to be what you've linked.

Two decades of blogging and still every company blog links to the blog index, not the brand homepage.

THIS! Oh, so much this! I never get it why they do this... I don't know how many times I clicked the logo expecting to get to the product's homepage, but, instead, I get to the blog's index. It escapes my mind, why nobody seems to think about this.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#84

It seems that every day we are getting closer and closer to a 'tricorder'. I used to laugh at fictional devices that could detect/emit any frequency and communicate with anything. Not laughing now. Pair something like this with a smartphone(specially those with ML cores) and things could get... interesting.

> It seems that every day we are getting closer and closer to a 'tricorder'.

Only, if we go full Cyborg / Trans-Human ;-)

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#85

It's a very cool device. You can do everything they show off with other tools, somethings like cloning cards can be done with cheap $30 cloners from China. However there are few tools that allow you to do ALL the different sub-ghz for relatively cheap, and in a very user friendly package. Closest I know of is HackRF Portapack... and that's well into $500 - but also for different target tooling.

I’ve heard good things about the Portapack, have you had a chance to play with one?

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#86
post #67

I've never wanted something so badly that I didn't even know existed until 5 minutes ago.

Resist the urge. Your smartphone is far more powerful.

That's not everything. Dedicated hardware is fun to play with, and my phone doesn't have GPIO pins.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#87

Is there ANY way to detect the presence of one of these devices, OR the use of a device when a tag ID is scanned? The reason that I ask, is that I was on the design team for lockheed when we were selling RFID tags for shipping containers at a shitload per pop... (123 and 433 mhz) and I brought up we had zero auth on any of our systems... and was just told to not speak about it.

Are these devices even technically legal to operate in the USA? I thought 433mhz was reserved for exactly what you say - tags for shipping containers. If you use a LoRa devices in the USA I think you are supposed to be >~850mhz.

If you have a ham license, 433MHz is solidly inside the permitted 70cm band: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Band%...

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#88

One thing I'd love to do with this, but which I don't think is possible - clone my car key. My family has two cars and I just wish I could have one device that is able to unlock & start both of them so that I don't have to carry two bulky dongles on my keychain.

I think that's for a good reason. I suppose the implement a hardware public-private encryption and they transmit random data everytine you press a button
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