Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks

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Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pen testers and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It’s fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

What is Flipper Zero?

Your cyber buddy is a tiny piece of hardware with a curious personality of a cyber-dolphin. It can interact with digital systems in real life and grow while you use it. Explore any kind of access control system, RFID, radio protocols, and debug hardware using GPIO pins.
The idea of Flipper Zero is to combine all the hardware tools you’d need for exploration and development on the go. Flipper was inspired by Pwnagotchi project, but unlike other DIY boards, Flipper is designed with the convenience of everyday usage in mind. Flipper turns your projects into a game, reminding you that development should always be fun.
Completely autonomous and can be controlled from a 5-Position directional pad without additional devices, such as computers or smartphones. Common scripts and functions are available from the menu.

For more control, you can connect to Flipper via USB. Instead of a TFT/IPS/OLED, we decided to build in a cool old-school LCD screen, which is perfectly visible in sunlight and has an ultra-low power consumption of 400nA with the backlight turned off.

Sub-1 GHz Transceiver

This is the operating range for a wide class of wireless devices and access control systems, such as garage door remotes, boom barriers, IoT sensors and remote keyless systems.

Flipper has an integrated 433MHz antenna, and a CC1101 chip, which makes it a powerful transceiver capable of up to 50 meters range.

Customizable radio platform

CC1101 is a universal transceiver designed for very low-power wireless applications. It supports various types of digital modulations such as 2-FSK, 4-FSK, GFSK and MSK, as well as OOK and flexible ASK shaping. You can perform any digital communication in your applications such as connecting to IoT devices and access control systems.

Oh, and one more thing — Flipper uses 433 MHz to communicate with other Flippers out there, so you can make some cyber-dolphin friends 🙂

125kHz RFID

Low-frequency proximity cards

This type of card is widely used in old access control systems around the world. It’s pretty dumb, stores only an N-byte ID and has no authentication mechanism, allowing it to be read, cloned and emulated by anyone. A 125 kHz antenna is located on the bottom of Flipper — it can read EM-4100 and HID PROX cards, save them to memory to emulate later.

You can also emulate cards by entering their IDs manually.
Moreover, Flipper owners can exchange card IDs remotely.

NFC

High-frequency proximity cards

NFC module (13.56 MHz). Along with the 125kHz module, it turns Flipper into an ultimate RFID device operating in both Low Frequency (LF) and High Frequency (HF) ranges. The NFC module supports all the major standards.

It works pretty much the same as the 125 kHz module, allowing you to interact with NFC-enabled devices — read, write and emulate HF tags.

Bluetooth – Connect to apps to control Flipper Zero

As with other Flipper wireless features, we will be providing an open source library for adding Flipper support to community-made apps.
Full BLE support allows Flipper Zero to act as both a host and a peripheral device. Connect your Flipper to 3rd-party devices and a smartphone simultaneously.
Our mobile developers are designing official iOS and Android apps to let you unleash Flipper’s potential with a larger screen and greater control.

Infrared Transceiver

The infrared transmitter can transmit signals to control electronics such as TVs, air conditioners, stereo systems and more.
Flipper has a built-in library of common TV vendor command sequences for power and volume control. This library is constantly updated by Flipper community users uploading new signals to Flipper’s IR Remote database.

Infrared learning feature

Flipper Zero also has an IR receiver that can receive signals and save them to the library. Store any of your existing remotes to transmit commands later. Upload the public IR Remote database to share with other Flipper users.

MicroSD Card

There is lots of heavy data Flipper has to store: remotes codes, signal databases, dictionaries, image assets, logs and more.
Flipper Zero will support any FAT32 formatted microSD card to store your assets.

iButton – 1-Wire keys (Touch Memory)

Built-in 1-Wire connector to read iButton (aka DS1990A, Touch Memory or Dallas key) contact keys. It uses the 1-Wire protocol that doesn’t have any authentication. Flipper can easily read these keys, store IDs to the memory, write IDs to blank keys and emulate the key itself.

Unique contact pad design on the corner. Shape works as a reader and a probe to connect to iButton sockets at the same time. This mode is also handy for silently intercepting the 1-Wire data line.

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