Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

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forgetbook•5h ago

This rocks; the idea of flipperzero phoning home is the(my) primary concern given its use case

jmole•5h ago

What use case?

I got mine to make a backup copy of the remote controls that I'm worried about losing, which happen to be sub-GHz and infrared.

gaudystead•5h ago

Would you be willing to elaborate on the FZ phoning home?

bigiain•48m ago

The FZ itself is very unlikely to even be capable of phoning home.

I do sometimes wonder how concerned I need to be about the companion app though.

varenc•5h ago

It's a very dumb device. If you don't put in a separate wifi module it literally has no way to phone home.

ThrowawayTestr•3h ago

The firmware is open source

forgetbook•3h ago

Edit for all replies: I'm coming from a place of lack of education; it's not that I know FZ is phoning home, it's that I know I wouldn't be able to tell if it was.

karolist•5h ago

There's also https://capibarazero.com/

conradev•5h ago

I wonder if modern smartphones could bus power one of these in a phone case. I love my Flipper, but it's a chonker and I have to charge it.

iraton•5h ago

Yes is possible, it doesn't consume too much, but the hardware remains bulky

zeroq•5h ago

I know this is a hobby project, but the whole appeal of Flipper Zero is that you can get one for $200 and it instantly grants you a seat on Joe Rogan or Shawn Ryan show where you can wave it front of camera, flip a switch and say "all you base are belong to mine".

segmondy•5h ago

nope, the whole appeal of flipper zero to me and for my friends is what you can do with it, not that you can get one for $200.

__float•4h ago

Is it not...a bit of both? There's some dollar amount where "what you can do with it" wouldn't make up for the price, no?

iraton•5h ago

yes, but it's not fun

0xdeadbeefbabe•4h ago

Mr. Ryan hands out gummy bears.

Chihuahua0633•5h ago

Do this device and the other alternative mentioned (Capibara Zero) have the same level of software support as the Flipper Zero? I imagine the strong community behind the Flipper Zero is a big factor in its ongoing popularity.

iraton•5h ago

Exactly, the flipepr have a enormous community that help, beyond all the people that work for flipper. So in this case is no, the software support is not even remotely comparable

general1726•3h ago

It is exactly same problem like Raspberry Pi vs all other (cheaper, better) single board computers.

blacksmith_tb•2h ago

Except the RPi competition isn't better, only cheaper, because it has terrible software; and without a big community, no support?

buzzerbetrayed•2h ago

Totally depends on what “better” means to you and your use case.

Technetium•1h ago

The firmware repo was archived Apr 12, 2025. I don't think it's going to be revived or be feature-competitive.

anfractuosity•5h ago

Don't suppose anyone has seen in person one of the clones of the flipper zero that are on Aliexpress?

macawfish•5h ago

I love the name

iraton•5h ago

thanks, i have a lot of fantasy

Neywiny•5h ago

Not seeing it mentioned here but the big difference from a first glance is the RF capability. This is little more than a 433 MHz replay attacker. Maybe you can generate arbitrary data out, as long as it's the ook modulation. I'm sure there's a great use-case for this, but avoid any delusions of grandeur, this is very cut down.

thekevan•5h ago

" Important Notice: This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional and is not intended to be. Is not an alternative for professional device."

ASalazarMX•5h ago

The title blurb seems to present it as a functional clone, rather than a limited copy.

"A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE"

Why not?

"A hobby partial Flipper Zero clone, cheaper, DIY and Open Source, made with Arduino IDE"

So it doesn't have to be clarified further down. I get that it's not that down, but the title is what will be shared and seen in web previews everywhere.

That being said, it looks very cool, and the name is fun.

Neywiny•4h ago

That's my thinking. It's not a clone. I finally remembered the term I was looking for. It's a "demake" - a remake but worse

iraton•4h ago

yes i know that is simply a replay attack, for now i was all that i want, in the future I will see what can be done

Neywiny•4h ago

And that's very fair but an OOK replayer is not a clone. The hardware isn't nearly the same capability. That's fine, it's just a different product entirely

aitacobell•5h ago

But does it look like a Tamagotchi?

iraton•4h ago

In the first version i added It, probably on the initial commit you can see It, but It have a problem with the microcontroller that i use, so for now i removed it

boznz•3h ago

The LilyGo T-Embed CC1100 has similar hardware capabilities of the FlipperZero plus WiFi/bluetooth and runs the Bruce Pentest firmware all for under half the price of the flipper. The Bruce firmware works well on it but is not as polished as the flipper zero but both hardware and software are open source and easily modded.

iraton•3h ago

Yes i know It, but when i started It this, It didn't exist yet

boznz•2h ago

Its sometimes fun re-inventing the wheel, at least you get to understand it all better.

cogogo•52m ago

I’m not sure I’ll ever understand HN aggression with certain downvotes. This is the OP from Italy and likely English is not their first language. Why is this comment so bad?

netsec_burn•2h ago

Also the Kiisu which is 1:1 with capabilities, plus a few more.

tgsovlerkhgsel•30m ago

The popularity and usefulness of many devices like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi doesn't stem from the hardware capabilities, but the "communities of scale" (lots of people use it -> it's much easier to find compatible software, hardware, guides etc.)

I would expect this to be the same for the Flipper Zero.

the__alchemist•2h ago

What is going on with the PCB? It looks like the soldered several dev boards to a big PCB. I can't think of a good reason to do this.

kennywinker•2h ago

Some good reasons off the top of my head:

It’s easier to do pcb-layout wise. Allows you to re-use most components between board revisions, or when you’re done with the project. Probably less ewaste overall because of that.

dylan604•2h ago

I mean, yeah, why not? You take a bunch of off the shelf boards and put them together on the PCB as is. To make a PCB with all of the components on it would not be very DIY. That's a custom board and out of scope for DIY.

the__alchemist•44m ago

If that is a boundary one sets up for him or herself, then I question why set up that boundary? Is it an identity matter? "I'm a DIYer (maker?), not an engineer. I have have no interest in doing anything deeper." I was thrilled when I learned about the Maker movement; then disappointed after observing that so much of it is done without ambition to learn more, or become better at the craft.

tgsovlerkhgsel•25m ago

A good reason to do it (IMO, as someone who has done it) that it's a lot faster, easier, and often cheaper than designing a fully custom board.

Not only would designing a fully custom board require a lot of error-prone effort, getting a lot of components in tiny quantities can be prohibitively expensive.

Good engineering includes optimizing for cost (monetary and non-monetary), and I'd argue that for many hobbyist one-off projects that won't be manufactured at scale, dev-boards-on-PCB is good engineering.

s-mon•53m ago

Wondering what the hotels in Vegas around Defcon will think of it this year lol.

vsviridov•10m ago

FlopperOne when? :)

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