Good to see some competition, the FlipperZero is very pricey for what it is. Then again, I guess you're paying for the software.
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This is still at breadboard stage. If you want to put something together for yourself at sub $35 you can. It's just not going to be portable, pretty, or probably even usable. I carry my flipper zero everywhere for a variety of tasks.
The flipper zero isn't doing anything special that you we haven't been able to do for decades with a variety of parts.
* SubGHZ, you need an RF module.
* Bluetooth? yep
* IR, you need IR,
* network, hey WiFi.
* SD card for any kind of storage? yep, another module
* USB anything but charging? Yep, more wires and modules.
But hey, most devices want at least 4 wires (VCC/GND/A FEW SIGNALs), and other devices want more, to handle clocks and timing. And that's only if your thing supports IC2 and you have enough GPIO. Otherwise you need multiplexers.
Any one of these things can be done with less than a dollar in parts. But have fun combining them all into something workable AND can do them all.
But hey, you are paying for the software right?? Come on.
Yeah. I've got raspberry pis, and some USB Wi-Fi adaptors specifically bought for having monitor mode, and a few different RTL-SDRs, and a HackRF One, and an Ubertooth One.
But I'm _way_ more likely to have my FlipperZero with me when my curiosity is piqued while out somewhere. I'll often have it in my pocket to use as the world's most expensive tv-b-gone.
They are discouraging open source hardware therefore that's what makes the software more valuable?
I invite you to hit up ChatGPT or something and shit out a flipper app. It's fun, and straightforward and most people could pull it off with a bit of time and slogging through it.
I would LOVE to see your Gerber design that fits in a case that's around 100x40x25mm and only weighs 104 grams. OH. And because of the parts involved, I'd love to see it because you'd need VERY advanced soldering skills to put it together.
I'll write the OS/SDK. But it has to be the same size or smaller and have:
1. A screen
2. NFC
3. 125 kHz RFID
4. IR Blaster and Receiver
5. Bluetooth
6. USB controller that can be tons of things
7. HID Controllers for lots of things
8. Still lots of exposed GPIO pins for external stuff.
9. SD Card
Any single one of these requires a sub $1 microcontroller/arduino/ESP + soldering ability + 10 lines of boilerplate code.
Yeah. tell me again the hardware isn't anything special.