Flipper Zero - introduction

Flipper Zero is defined as "hacking" tool, i.e. is a collection of devices and SW that allows to explore and interact with technology around us.

Controversial

Before to look more in deep, let me say a word about the perception of people usually not knowing the argument.
Flipper Zero is becoming a controversial device because, according to people who doesn't know what it is, is used by criminals to stole cars, enter in homes and do lot of other crimes.
Although technically is true that some crimes (i,e, acts against some laws) can be made using some Flipper Zero potentialities, the device can do lot of useful, law abiding, things.
In other words, the tool is NOT designed to commit crimes, it can be used to do positive, useful things.
And like ANY tools, it can be used by criminals to commit crimes.
People who wants to ban Flipper and label who own one as criminal, should do the same with EVERYTHING else. Examples ?
A car, a hammer, cash .. the list is infinite. 

Everything can be used to commit crimes.

Another very very very important thing to understand is that a Flipper Zero simply integrate functionalities that exists in other forms.
i.e. is not a new invention. Everything that can be done with a Flipper Zero can be done in thousands of other way.
Flipper Zero simply is "convenient", not "innovative"
Who knows what he/she is doing, can build the same functionalities with other HW,
A Raspberry Pi type board, Linux, etc. .. there is an entire universe of hacking platforms and tools out there, for a long time.

One thing Flipper Zero can be guilty of, is to facilitate people to understand lot of things and yes, maybe facilitate criminals to do something, exactly like a car can be used to kill or fast escape a crime.
i.e. the problem are the criminals, not the tools and surely NOT people who wants to learn and, why not, also having fun. 

Who and what ?

Like ANY tool, anybody can use it to do different things.

So this specific tool is designed with the idea to interact with everyday tech in many different fields.

I'm not even starting to do a list of things that can be done with a Flipper Zero, there are tons and tons of sites with everything.

On my blog, I want just to write about what I do with it.

From a technical perspective, what exactly is a Flipper Zero ?

Let see some data (see here for a recap - What's inside paragraph) :

• Processor STM32WB55RG
  As the data sheet claims, is a Ultra-low-power dual core Arm Cortex-M4 MCU 64 MHz, Cortex-M0+ 32 MHz with 1 Mbyte of Flash memory, Bluetooth LE 5.4, 802.15.4, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, USB, LCD, AES-256
  
  Wow, lot of stuff.  I did use ST processors eons ago, so I was little bit surprised to see an ST processor in it.  Cool
• All the memory available is the one in the processor, so is not much.
  For that an SD card is used to store applications and data.
• Bunch of peripherals for RFID/NFC/iButton/Infrared/etc.
• GPIO
  
  
  
  
On other articles I will discuss more related topics.

Resources

• Flipper - Flipper Zero presentation
• Flipper - Flipper Zero documentation
• Flipper - qFlipper --> Linux/Mac/Windows tool to manage a Flipper Zero