Considered one of our favourite hacking devices, the Flipper Zero, obtained its first main firmware replace at this time. It features a bunch of options the builders have been engaged on stabilizing for the final three years, together with a giant battery life enhance that technically arrived with a earlier replace. Whereas most of the options aren’t technically new, your complete bundle ought to make this gadget really feel like a supercharged model of its former self.
Probably the most notable updates since launch solves one of many builders’ greatest issues: the gadget’s inner flash reminiscence initially restricted what number of options they might add. Previously, new options have been constructed into the firmware itself, however they finally exceeded what the reminiscence may deal with. Final 12 months, the gadget added an app retailer and allow you to run new apps from the microSD card as an alternative.
JavaScript is now supported, so coding your personal apps could possibly be simpler. The NFC subsystem has been rewritten from the bottom up, helps extra card sorts, and might learn playing cards quicker. Transferring information through Bluetooth with Android units can also be quicker, and the pace of firmware updates has elevated by 40 %, in response to the builders.
The brand new firmware additionally contains extra IR protocols, so in case you already use the Flipper Zero as a common distant management, now you can use it with extra TVs, ACs, audio techniques, and projectors. Should you want an extended transmission vary, the Flipper Zero helps exterior infrared modules, too. Right here’s an explainer video:
You can too use the Flipper Zero to hearken to analog walkie-talkies, and the builders say its sub-GHz radio now helps 89 totally different radio protocols in all. If the built-in antenna isn’t delicate sufficient, now you can additionally join it to an exterior sub-GHz module to get a greater one.
