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PSA: the main benefit of this s the ease of use, due to a lcd display, buttons and software support. If you're familiar with arduino/esp* programming, you can get the components (eg. esp32, cc1101, nfc reader, and infrared transciever) for a lot cheaper on aliexpress or your local reseller, and all of those things are in stock. (or in other words, if you're one of those people who buy stuff like this, play with it fo…
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> Other users have provided the link, but my heart sinks a little every time I see this brought up, especially when the commenter is singled out by name. People forget that this is a real person. He also happens to be a first-class HN contributor, and has been for many years. > I realize it's internet fun to point neon arrows at people seeming outrageously wrong in the past, but the truth is that people aren't readin…
They were also very right about one critical point: > without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this? Dropbox was initially pitched as a free service, which was absolutely not sustainable , and someone would have been right to be very skeptical about the underlying business model. People might not have been quite as enthusiastic if they'd said from the beginning "oh, and…
The relevant bit to this is the “quite trivially” do X, Y, and Z non trivial thing.
Technical people often underestimate the value of good UX, generally there’s a lot of demand for it. That’s also where a lot of the value is in making something good. He also acknowledges as much in his reply to Drew.
In this case the “main benefit” of the flipper being ease of use, software, and hardware vs. some random components off of Ali express just reminds me of that.
With this number of radios, does it need to be FCC certified?
As a side note, in some of the promo images, the battery gauge is at 52% (or 73%), yet its icon shows a full battery... I guess it's fixed in the real implementation.
As an aside, I'm curious about wireless hacking but don't know whether or not I possess the necessary expertise. Can someone with no prior knowledge of pen testing or wireless networks benefit from this?
PSA: the main benefit of this s the ease of use, due to a lcd display, buttons and software support. If you're familiar with arduino/esp* programming, you can get the components (eg. esp32, cc1101, nfc reader, and infrared transciever) for a lot cheaper on aliexpress or your local reseller, and all of those things are in stock. (or in other words, if you're one of those people who buy stuff like this, play with it fo…
This just make me want to make my own little Arduino device. I bet it would be more fun than buying a thing someone else made that I don't have a real use for.
You're right that one could put most of the functionality together, but not in a package that you're gonna toss in your pocket for EDC.
I guess, should you stop feeding it a steady stream of keys, signals, and flashes, it ... dies due to lack of care, just as a tamagotchi :( With this number of radios, does it need to be FCC certified? As a side note, in some of the promo images, the battery gauge is at 52% (or 73%), yet its icon shows a full battery... I guess it's fixed in the real implementation.
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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.
There's a load of GPIO on it too
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?
Given all the comments here praising the build quality and conspicuous lack of comments talking about the actual things it can do, I'm guessing it's fairly difficult to use for anything beyond admiring it's build quality
Next it's fun to mess with the screens at the pub.
Somewhere along the way, realizing that someone out there has the remote you lost long ago and all you really want is an on/off button and now you can get one.
For me so far it's a universal remote with a kind of weird interface.
How do you write software for it? Are there apps you can write or do you have to modify the firmware?
I hadn't actually written an original line of C code since the 1980s. After a couple evenings of following one of the tutorials, I was able to create some new functionality to a button that currently doesn't do anything.
At least one person on the Discord (Flipper Devices, I think) watches when someone mentions how they think it would be cool to make changes to the firmware, When that happens, they upload a PDF of the K&R book "The C Programming Language" to the chat.
Has anyone come across guides on how to use it? Just simple things like copying a garage opener. I tried it a few times and couldn't work it out. I think It looks like I got it to capture something, but then nothing happens when I send it again. Makes me feel a bit dumb and haven't touched it since.
I encourage you go to this young man's main page and buy him a coffee (not me nor anyone I know, apparently I was the first person to actually use that button)