Flipper One Tech Specs

ggregsadetsky about 2 hours ago 25 commentsRead Article on docs.flipper.net

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jgrahamc•about 1 hour ago

I have a Flipper Zero and I've used it... occasionally. Like that one time controlling the Taylor Swift Eras tour wristbands: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-t... but it's mostly sat around being an odd device.

I duplicated a couple of RFID things, used the IR for some stuff, and once in a while used the radio receiver, but mostly it looks pretty.

I'm not sure what I'd do with a Flipper One, but I guess I've done a lot of things with Raspberry Pis so... maybe?

tonyarkles•44 minutes ago

I had similar feelings but the comments below about adding an SDR to it with an M.2 slot got me looking a little closer. This has an 8-core Rockchip A72/A53 processor and 8GB of RAM. This is not an incremental improvement over the Flipper Zero, this is something else entirely. Hmmmmm...

abr0ahm•5 minutes ago

It's about time someone rolled out a watch that has these capabilities.

sam_lowry_•40 minutes ago

Heh... I used Flipper Zero to clone RFID tags for all the neighbors to T5577 rings, pins, sticky pads and whatever not for our gated community.

If you are adventurous, many ski stations have low-tech cards as well, although they also tend to have human controllers once in a while.

And, finally, kids like running around with Flipper Zero opening power taps on Teslas.

maciejb•33 minutes ago

I had plenty of fun reverse engineering a 433.92 MHz protocol curtain motors at my house use. Once that was done and I taught first my Flipper Zero, then a RPi with a C1101 to actuate the motors, the Flipper is sitting idly in the drawer.

maplant•21 minutes ago

I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually

quietsegfault•37 minutes ago

I have done exactly the same type and amount of stuff with my flipper zero, probably in the target demo. still, no complaints! I think the one is a cool toy that I will one day (if I’m lucky) use as the perfect solution for a problem. If I can do that just once, it’ll be worth the price for me.

sterlind•about 1 hour ago

maybe I'm blind, but it looks like there's no radio! like there's wifi and bluetooth, sure, but I don't see NFC or RFID or sub-1ghz radio, at all.

imo the flipper always needed to be a software-defined transciever, with a small FPGA to drive it, like the other SDRs on the market. I'm disappointed they seem to have forsaken radio completely.

rkourdis•about 1 hour ago

They added an M.2 port [1] to which you can attach a variety of modules, including SDR (eg. [2] 30 MHz - 11 GHz).

[1]: https://docs.flipper.net/one/hardware/m2-port/modules [2]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/wavelet-lab/ssdr

johnwalkr•29 minutes ago

The flipper zero was already in a grey area because it easily enables one to do things in licensed bands and do things you’re not allowed to do in unlicensed bands. They can’t plausibly add even more functions in this area and still sell to the public. Presumably all of the interfaces they added are for users to add the functions under their own responsibility.

mschuster91•2 minutes ago

No NFC, no 1-wire, no IR? That's some tough losses :(

arjie•15 minutes ago

Interesting. No IR/RFID/NFC? That's the primary use of my Flipper Zero. So this is meant to be a different device rather than a successor.

Kikawala•7 minutes ago

The 3.5mm audio jack can be used to plug in an IR emitter.

elil17•about 1 hour ago

Why the AI voice assistant? What? Is this perhaps a prank? That doesn't line up with the ethos of the Flipper Zero

beepbooptheory•19 minutes ago

Where does it talk about a voice assistant?

perryprog•10 minutes ago

The first image which annotates the controls has a "Push-to-Talk button" which is used for "Voice communication" and "AI assistant activation".

s_dev•about 1 hour ago

I've heard some professionally inclined RFID engineers dismiss these as mere toys and not useful compared to professional grade hardware. Perhaps some of those folk are on HN if so what are the tool sets you actually use that can be sold to the public?

K0balt•30 minutes ago

RF design is very much an art, and the difference between works and works really well without harmonics and noise is a matter of design subtleties and often expensive parts. There are decent SDR setups around $500-700 that are known to be pretty good, but you have to go out of your way to buy them from the actual design houses, because despite being “identical”, the clones are not the same. In RF, the devil is in the details.

panki27•38 minutes ago

Not too far from the truth. The Flipper is good as a toy, but for serious RFID things you want a proxmark 3 clone with Iceman firmware ;)

vivid242•31 minutes ago

A Swiss army knife of the day - after all, Swiss Army knives also serve a psychological purpose. And they do it well!

dgellow•30 minutes ago

Side question: anyone know what they are using to make those 3d schemas with highlights?

vegadw•about 1 hour ago

Looks both expensive and power hungry, will be interesting to see how that works out

ge96•about 1 hour ago

Finally a legit prop for movies not a pcb taped to a TV remote

I like that subreddit too with the e-ink display wifi probing thing forget what it's called oh pwnagotchi

janci•about 1 hour ago

Why put such crappy display on such a high power device?

filcuk•25 minutes ago

That's pretty simple - the chosen display is best for core usage. Cleay visible in bright sun or dark, sharp angles, easy on the battery. For anything else, there's a HDMI out isn't there.