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axegon_ ◴[] No.41858198[source]
A good PCB design + a few STL files and this would truly be marvelous. I do own a flipper zero(I was one of the first backers so I've had it for a while). Admittedly it's a bit over-hyped and I never saw it as an rf swiss army knife because of it's limitations and shortcomings.

The two shortcomings I saw were the price and the lack of WiFi built in. In reality, if this project gets paired with a single board computer, this would truly be a match made in heaven. An 18650 lipo battery to power them on, a cheap stl file for a 3d printed case and you have a disposable one-off hacking device(as in drop it somewhere for a one time task and do everything remotely over ssh and a proxy like ngrok or bore).

Admittedly I started working on something of the sorts a while back though I never really got anywhere due to the lack of time. I actually wanted to include LoRa to the equation to make it truly off the grid. I got as far as writing some boilerplate code for the project and it's been collecting dust ever since... "Someday" as we all like to say...

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nateabele ◴[] No.41858652[source]
Push it!

I can happily pick up the torch on everything except the PCB design.

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1. axegon_ ◴[] No.41858861[source]
Well the PCB design isn't my strong side either - I am completely self-taught in that regard and I'm sure people who have studied that will tare me apart for any decisions I've made(also valid for all of my projects involving PCB's in the past, even more so considering I make the PCB's at home with a diode laser). Likewise, software is my domain.