Maker Ryan Walker has designed a robust add-on for the favored Flipper Zero multitool-stroke digital pet, which delivers the power to hold out safety testing of networks by no fewer than three radios: the Flipper Blackhat.
“The Flipper Blackhat is a 100% open-source {hardware} + software program Linux-based Flipper [Zero] add-on that allows Wi-Fi assaults,” Walker explains of his creation. “Ultimately, the machine will probably be stand-alone, with a Blackberry fashion keypad, however for now, I am utilizing the flipper for its battery, IO [Input/Output], and display.”
The Flipper Zero, which entered mass manufacturing in 2021, was initially billed because the “multi-tool machine for hackers” earlier than Flipper Units rebranded it as being for “geeks” — although too late to cease the Canadian authorities calling for a crackdown on its sale. Impressed by the traditional Tamagotchi, the Flipper Zero is a component digital dolphin pet and half wireless-and-wired multi-use gadget that enables the person to experiment with sub-gigahertz radio indicators, infrared indicators, RFID and NFC contactless gadgets, and extra.
What it would not do, out of the field, is deal with Wi-Fi. Numerous add-ons, together with an official one from Flipper Units itself, add the lacking Wi-Fi connectivity — however Walker’s Flipper Blackhat is one thing completely different: successfully a surprisingly highly effective single-board pc in its personal proper, utilizing the significantly much less computationally highly effective Flipper Zero as a show, person enter machine, and energy supply.
The board is predicated across the Allwinner A33 system-on-chip, launched in 2014 and designed to be used in Android tablets, which supplies it 4 Arm Cortex-A7 cores operating at as much as 1.8GHz and an Arm Mali-400MP2 graphics processor. To this, Walker has added a Realtek RTL8723DS 2.4GHz Wi-Fi transceiver — with two USB Kind-A ports offering room for a bundled 5GHz Realtek RTL8821CU Wi-Fi dongle and, if desired, a 3rd radio of the person’s alternative. For software program, the board runs a tweaked Linux distribution.
The board is, successfully, as highly effective as a 2014-era Android pill, utilizing the Flipper Zero as an interface and energy supply. (📷: Rootkit Labs)
“In full transparency,” Walker says of the gadget, “it is a beta machine. I do know of no {hardware} bugs, and I’ve examined it fairly effectively. The Display has not been examined. Software program continues to be in progress; proper now, I am not promoting gadgets with 100% full bug-free software program; you’d be an early adopter and get software program updates over the following few months. Should you’re a hacker and like engaged on Linux methods (Raspberry Pis, and so forth…) this machine might be for you.”
Extra info on the Flipper Blackhat is out there on Walker’s Rootkit Labs retailer, the place boards are up on the market at CHF69 every (round $79); on the time of writing the preliminary batch had been offered out, however Walker says manufacturing is being ramped to fulfill demand. Board design recordsdata can be found on GitHub below a Inventive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Worldwide license, with software program accessible in a separate repository below an unspecified license.
