Flipper Zero 1.0 firmware update supercharges the hacking handheld

One of our favourite hacking gadgets, the Flipper Zero, received its archetypal large firmware update today. It includes a clump of features the developers person been moving connected stabilizing for the past 3 years, including a big artillery beingness boost that technically arrived with a erstwhile update. While galore of the features aren’t technically new, the full bundle should marque this gadget consciousness similar a supercharged mentation of its erstwhile self.

One of the astir notable updates since motorboat solves 1 the developers’ biggest problems: the device’s interior flash representation primitively constricted however galore features they could add. In the past, caller features were built into the firmware itself, but they yet exceeded what the representation could handle. Last year, the instrumentality added an app store, and fto you tally caller apps from the microSD paper instead.

JavaScript is present supported, truthful coding your ain apps could beryllium easier. The NFC subsystem has been rewritten from the crushed up, supports much paper types, and tin work cards faster. Transferring information via Bluetooth with Android devices is besides faster and the velocity of firmware updates person accrued by 40 percent, according to the developers.

The caller firmware besides includes much IR protocols. So if you already usage the Flipper Zero arsenic a cosmopolitan distant control, you tin present usage it with much TVs, ACs, audio systems, and projectors. If you request a longer transmission range, the Flipper Zero supports outer infrared modules, too. Here’s an explainer video:

You tin besides usage the Flipper Zero to perceive to analog walkie-talkies, and the developers accidental its sub-GHz vigor present supports 89 antithetic vigor protocols successful all. If the built-in antenna isn’t delicate enough, you tin present besides link it to an outer sub-GHz module to get a amended one.