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Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

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Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#31
post #16

Popular security researchers have claimed that the Flipper Zero website is a honeypot site.

Well they did a really good job then, because the physical product in my hands is well made and functional.

But the website clearly says that shipping will start in August. How did you get yours?

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#32
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well they did a really good job then, because the physical product in my hands is well made and functional.

How do you have a physical product when they’re only taking pre-orders?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper...

perhaps a different reward tier for the kickstarter? it was a massive success. if you check the comment / karma history for people saying they have them they're not fake accounts.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#34

Would this allow me to reverse engineer Bluetooth packets? I’ve been wanting to for some stuff I want to tie into home assistant.

Use an Android phone with Bluetooth snoop logging turned on and then use wireshark to look at the BLE packets.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#35
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well they did a really good job then, because the physical product in my hands is well made and functional.

But the website clearly says that shipping will start in August. How did you get yours?

They ran a very very successful kickstarter. I think people who have them paid into a different reward tier and got stuff early.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#36
post #10

Would something like this be a good way for a beginner to get into hardware hacking, or is it more for intermediate-advanced level hackers?

Depends what your trying to do with it to be honest. If you just wanna use the i2c/spi/uart stuff you can probably handle it. If you can plug some cables in, at worst soldering cables or headers to a board and can find the pins/pads themselves you’ll be fine.

At worst if you wanna try it out without spending so much money you can try out the bus pirate from dangerous prototypes it’s only ~27.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#38
post #5

Can anyone provide examples on how to use this? The FAQ and Blog have a ton of info on what it is and how to get it, but I don't see anything on why.

I saw this 24 minute exhaustive review before ordering one last week: https://youtu.be/1qp78fiDD5M

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#39
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well they did a really good job then, because the physical product in my hands is well made and functional.

How do you have a physical product when they’re only taking pre-orders?

I was able to get a US shipment of it to me about a month ago (not via KS), the store has had small batches of restocks available every once in a while.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

#40
post #10

Would something like this be a good way for a beginner to get into hardware hacking, or is it more for intermediate-advanced level hackers?

Flipper zero is more aimed at wireless hacking. Which is very cool, it's a fairly unexplored area of hacking (due to traditionally high barrier of entry), but is a subset of "hardware hacking".

For general hardware hacking I'd get a pirate bus ($30), and a saelae logic clone (cheap). Maybe a nice cheap oscilloscope (but they go for $300+), but logic clone can get you mostly there.

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