Flipper One unveiled as Linux-powered networking gadget with local AI for hackers and tinkerers

Flipper unveils a Linux-powered networking gadget built for hackers and tinkerers

Flipper Devices, maker of the Flipper Zero hacking device, today announced a new gadget called Flipper One that has multiple network connectivity chops and can act as a Linux PC (is this the year?). The company has sold over a million Flipper Zero units and has generated over $150 million in sales. However, the new device is not a successor as it operates on a different layer than the Flipper Zero, the company said. The Flipper Zero device is popular in the hacker community, which can connect to radios like Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, a sub-1GHz transceiver, and Infrared. The device could act like a key fob or an entry pass, but could also be used in cases like spamming nearby iPhones. Meanwhile, the new Flipper One device relies on network connectivity through 2x Gigabit Ethernet, USB Ethernet (5 Gbps), and Wi-Fi 6E (2.4/5/6 GHz). What's more, the device has an M.2 port, which can be used to connect a modem for 5G connectivity or other devices like SDR modules, AI accelerators, SSDs (NVMe or SATA), and Wi-Fi cards via adapters. The device is still in development, and the company is merely announcing the project at the moment. The device will run two processors along with an 8GB RAM. The first is an eight-core chip that runs open Linux along with a Mali-G52 GPU and an NPU to run local AI models. The company said that it worked with open-source software consulting firm Collabora to push this chip's support into the mainline Linux Kernel, so anyone can download it from Kernel.org and tinker with it. The second chip is a two-core Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. This powers display, buttons, and touchpad, LEDs, and the power subsystem, so even when the Linux part of the device is turned off, users can operate the device. Flipper Devices CEO Pavel Zhovner said that the company is also developing its own Linux-based flavour. He said in a blog that while Raspberry Pi OS is fluid and he enjoys using it, it is hard to do a clean factory reset after installing packages unless you re-flash the SD card for a new project. The Flipper OS, which is currently in a concept stage, will allow users to access profiles with different pre-configured packages and settings. By doing this, users can play around with software and go back to a clean copy without swapping or flashing SD cards. As part of the development, the company is also making a FlipCTL interface to control small screen LCDs on devices like Flipper One with D-pad and touch controls. The company said that with network connection drivers, users can use Flipper One as a router, a VPN gateway, or a bridge between. Plus, they can plug in a monitor, along with a keyboard and a mouse through a USB Hub to make for a Linux desktop or use it as an on-the-go media box through its HDMI 2.1 port with support for 4K streaming at 120Hz. Users can also run local AI models to operate the device, generate configs, and get useful tips without an internet connection. Flipper Devices has just announced the device and overall roadmap of how it could be used. There are still a lot of missing software pieces to enable all the mentioned features. For instance, NPU for AI and hardware video decoding lacks mainline kernel support. Both FlipperOS and FlipperCTL are concepts at the moment. The team has yet to train offline LLMs that would help users with configs. The company is inviting developers to join the community and develop parts of the software that could be used to ship the final device. It said that the final details of the consumer launch would be announced in the future, but the device is likely to cost less than $350 for the base configuration without cellular modules.

The Flipper One is a full-on Linux cyberdeck that solves my biggest Raspberry Pi problem

After many months of speculation, Flipper Devices Inc., the company behind the wildly successful Flipper Zero, has finally lifted the lid on the company's next project -- the Flipper One. Also: 7 useful things I can do with my Flipper Zero - as someone who's used it for years And if you thought the Flipper Zero was incredibly cool, this will blow you away. The Flipper One is an open (and when they say open, they mean it -- from full mainline Linux kernel support, absolutely no binary blobs, closed drivers, or proprietary firmware, and no vendor-locked board support package), high-performance Linux platform that can form the basis for pretty much anything that you want it to do, from a network analyzer to an SDR (Software-Defined Radio) to an offline AI or LLM project. Think full-on pocket computer. Doing all this demands power, and the Flipper One has it. Inside there's a high-performance 2.2 GHz octa-core RK3576 chipset that features a Mali-G52 GPU and an NPU capable of 6 TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) that allows you to run local LLMs (Large Language Models -- one of which will be a Flipper One specific LLM for using the tool). This chipset is fully supported by Linux, and there's 8GB of built-in RAM to handle the operating system and apps. All this power in a device that sits in the palm of your hand. But there's more. Running alongside this main chip is a secondary dual-core Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller for handling the basic tasks of the Flipper One, things like the display, button interface, touchpad control, LEDs, and the power subsystem. In fact, if you don't want to run Linux, the Flipper One can run entirely on the RP2350 chip. This makes the Flipper One a very power-efficient device when it's not running Linux. There's a lot of hardware packed into the Flipper One. Also: If you like your Flipper Zero, then you'll love this Everything from a 1.4-inch screen, a touchpad, a 5-button D pad, an M.2 slot that can accept a range of hardware, from cellular or satellite modems, SDR modules, and SSDs (NVMe or SATA) to AI accelerators and Wi-Fi cards. While the Flipper Zero was aimed at interacting with devices not connected to the internet -- think level zero devices -- the Flipper One is aimed at IP-connected hardware, or level one stuff. To pull this off, it features twin gigabit Ethernet ports (so you have a router or bridge out of the box), Wi-Fi 6E support (something that the Flipper Zero didn't have, and while you could add wireless support, it was pretty primitive), and 5 Gbps Ethernet over USB-C. Wi-Fi is handled by the MediaTek MT7921AUN chipset (the Wi-Fi chip used in the Alfa AWUS036AXML wireless adapter, a very popular pick amongst security professionals because it's so versatile), which is very popular amongst hardware hackers and penetration testers because it's fully supported by Linux, and it has advanced features such as monitor mode and packet injection capabilities. In building the Flipper One, the developers wanted to fix one of the most annoying aspects of the Raspberry Pi platform, and one that's been bugging me for years. Yes, the Raspberry Pi is a very versatile platform. I've had boards that one day are running penetration tests on Wi-Fi networks, and the next day that same board is a router. But here's the problem -- any time that I want to change what a Raspberry Pi does, it always starts with re-flashing the microSD card. The devs working on the Flipper One want to change this and take a completely different approach, and put an end to having to juggle a bunch of microSD cards. Also: Flipper Zero: 'Can you really hack Wi-Fi networks?' and other questions answered To do this, the Flipper One will run two operating systems in addition to a Debian-based Linux -- Flipper OS and FlipCTL. Let's start with Flipper OS, which is a layer that sits on top of the Linux OS that allows the system to run profiles that have been configured with specific packages and settings. Flipper OS will allow these profiles to be booted up, cloned, or deleted at will. Want to change what your Flipper One is doing? Boot up a different profile. Broke something in a specific profile? Reload a different one. Think of a desktop system running a bunch of virtual machines. It's a fascinating concept. The developers also want to take this concept of profiles further, going beyond the Flipper One and creating a platform that can be used for "cyberdeck builds based on Raspberry Pi, or any portable tactical Linux box." But, as Pavel Zhovner, the founder of Flipper Devices, makes clear in today's blog post, "we're not 100% sure how to architect it yet." FlipCTL is there to solve a problem that exists with Linux systems -- they just don't work great on tiny screens. FlipCTL offers a comprehensive framework for building menu-based interfaces that work on small LCD screens and can be controlled using a D-pad and a few buttons. This would give you access to Linux tools like ping, nmap, traceroute right from the tiny built-in screen -- without losing your mind. I'm someone who's run Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi board with a 7-inch display, and while I could make it work (very well, actually), this wasn't a fun experience. Also: Flipper Zero: How to install third-party firmware (and why you should) Also, the idea is that if you want to build something simple like a router or a NAS box -- something that doesn't need a big screen to work -- you can get this working using FlipCTL without needing to go into full-blown Linux. The Flipper One can also act like a thin client or survival desktop, a computer that you always have with you. All you need is a display, keyboard, and mouse, and you have a full Linux system at your fingertips. As much as this is an official announcement of the Flipper One, it's also a call for help. While the project is clearly quite mature, and a product isn't all that far in the future (although no one is going to commit to a timeline just yet), the developers at Flipper Devices want the help of the community, not only to help shape the direction of the project, but also to help with some of the nitty-gritty work, like getting full mainline Linux kernel support for NPUs, getting Flipper OS profile support working, and helping choose a specific NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network, in other words, satellite) M.2 module to support. Now, if this was anyone other than Flipper Devices, I'd say that getting that sort of support would be a huge challenge. Many a great project has stumbled by not being able to muster developer enthusiasm. But the Flipper Zero has a huge community of developers and enthusiasts doing all sorts of things, from building custom firmware to creating bespoke apps. It's one of the liveliest and most supportive communities I've seen lately, and while it's not as mature as communities that have built around things like Linux distros or Raspberry Pi hardware, it's a very fresh and active community that gets a lot done. On top of that, just look at what the Flipper Zero could do. I've yet to see a tool that makes working with things like RFID and sub-GHz frequencies so simple and straightforward. This announcement also answers the question that I'd been pondering ever since I first heard whispers about the Flipper Zero's predecessor -- just what is Flipper One supposed to be? Having read all the documentation released today -- and there's a lot of it -- I'm convinced that it's focused on becoming a serious competitor to the Raspberry Pi and other SBC (Single Board Computer) projects. Yes, I know that's a big statement, but given how big the Flipper Zero got in a short space of time, and how much software and hardware developer interest there has been in it, I think it has a chance. Here we have the groundwork for a full, open hardware and software cyberdeck platform, a truly versatile, modular, portable computing platform. A platform that not only packs a lot of hardware, but also fully leverages the M.2 slot to make the Flipper One as versatile as possible. Whether you want to slot in an SSD or work with a satellite modem, the Flipper One wants to make that as easy as possible. And if the Flipper Zero is anything to go by, the Flipper One will be an amazing tool. There is one unknown -- price. At $199, the Flippr Zero is hardly cheap, so the Flipper One is going to be more than that. The modular nature of the Flipper One will help keep costs down. The flip side is that you'll be spending on accessories -- a M.2 satellite modem will set you back at least $100.

New Flipper One Multi-Tool Computer Is Official, Built for Tinkerers

With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, wearables, AI, and more. In 2020, the Flipper Zero became a phenomenon among hackers, tinkerers, and beginners seeking new ways to play with their household tech. The enthusiast multi-tool computer is back, but it isn't releasing a second-gen Flipper Zero. The Flipper One is a new product line with advanced connectivity options on a device that maintains the brand's aesthetic and continues its intention to help absolute beginners experiment with its self-styled Swiss Army knife-like gadget. PCMag's Justyn Newman spent significant time with the Flipper Zero, finding he could program it to extract a pet's microchip information from an RFID sensor, set up a PC resource manager, and make it work as an additional remote for gadgets around his home. While the Zero was built for offline point-to-point access-control protocols, the Flipper One is for 5G, Ethernet, satellite, and Wi-Fi connectivity. There are two WAN/LAN ports running at 1 Gbps, USB Ethernet support up to 5 Gbps, and Wi-Fi 6E support, while additional modules provide 5G. A blog post from Flipper's CEO, Pavel Zhovner, says, "It's all about networking, data transfer, and high-performance computing. Running on powerful hardware and an open Linux toolkit -- enough computing power to handle SDR and local AI." The Flipper One features a high-performance 8-core RK3576 SoC, a Mali-G52 GPU, and an NPU for running LLMs or other models locally. That's all paired with 8GB of RAM, with the CPU running Linux OS. Meanwhile, a low-power microcontroller unit running Raspberry Pi with an RP2350 powers the display controls, touchpad, LED lights, and other aspects of the device. Alongside the new hardware, Flipper is also opening up its development process by publishing all of its internal discussions, task trackers, debates, and more. Flipper calls this "all the messy stuff companies usually keep behind closed doors." The idea is to keep the process as open as possible through a public wiki called the Flipper One Developer Portal, and the option for anyone to join in and suggest new ideas. Flipper has yet to share a release timeline, suggesting it may be a while before the One arrives. We also don't know the price, but expect it to be higher than the Flipper Zero's $199 price tag, given the advanced tech on show. Zhovner notes in his blog post, "There's a lot of uncertainty in this project, along with technical challenges and financial risks (like the current RAM chip crisis). I don't know if we'll be able to do everything we've planned, but we'll give it everything we've got."

The Flipper One is finally official, but Flipper isn't selling it yet -- they're asking for help to build it

The Flipper Zero spent the past five years becoming the kind of device that people either own and love or have a strong opinion about despite never having touched one. It packaged NFC, sub-GHz radio, infrared, RFID, and a handful of hardware interfaces into a pocket-sized microcontroller toy that became unexpectedly serious in the hands of researchers, hobbyists, and the occasional teenager. It was hugely popular, and the company says that it generated over $150 million in sales with more than a million devices sold. Flipper Devices teased a follow-up called the Flipper One many years ago, sharing an ambitious vision of a Kali Linux-powered portable device before quietly shelving it a while later. The company went back to the drawing board, and the Flipper One that's been revealed today is more ambitious, grown up, and thought out. It's not expected to replace the Flipper Zero either, and the company says that it's a separate product line aimed at a fundamentally different layer of the stack. It's a pocket-sized Arm Linux computer for IP networking, high-speed data processing, and on-device AI workloads, and the two products will be developed in parallel. There's a catch, though. Flipper isn't announcing something you can buy right now, and there's no price or release date to be found just yet. What's being announced is the product as a project, alongside a Collabora partnership to push the Rockchip RK3576 fully into mainline Linux and a Developer Portal that opens Flipper's entire development process to the public from day one. The hardware exists and works, but the CEO has previously said the business model may not hold up, and the company is just as candid now with that fact as it was back then. The Flipper One is nothing like the original Similar looks, totally different hardware The Flipper One is built around the Rockchip RK3576, an eight-core Arm SoC with four Cortex-A72 cores running up to 2.2 GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores at 2.0 GHz, a Mali-G52 GPU, and a 6 TOPS NPU. There's 8 GB of RAM and an RP2350 microcontroller acting as a co-processor for the display, buttons, touchpad, LEDs, battery, and power management. Linux runs on the big chip, FreeRTOS on the small one, with the two talking over SPI, I2C, and UART. The MCU also stays alive when the main chip is off, which is what makes the Flipper One usable as a USB-C power bank for other devices while it's idle. The networking side is where the device's intent becomes clearest. It packs two Gigabit Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi 6E across 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz on a MediaTek MT7921AUN-based module, Bluetooth, and a USB-C port that can emulate an Ethernet adapter at multi-gigabit speeds. There's a full-size HDMI 2.1 output capable of 4K at 120 Hz with CEC, and an M.2 Key-B slot that exposes PCIe 2.1, USB 3.1, USB 2.0, SATA3, SIM, UART, I2C, and audio lines for adding cellular modems, SDR cards, NVMe storage, or whatever the slot can physically accept. Key-B was a deliberate choice; Flipper confirmed to us that "almost all M.2 cellular modems use Key-B, and modems were exactly what we prioritized." Key-B+M NVMe and SATA SSDs work in the slot too, while Wi-Fi cards will need an adapter. However, as the company also pointed out, there are almost no hacker-oriented Wi-Fi modules in M.2 form factor anyway, and the onboard MT7921AUN-based radio shares its chipset with the Alfa AWUS036AXML, a well-regarded Wi-Fi 6E adapter popular in the pentesting community. Flipper also says it plans to produce its own M.2 modules and will try to convince other vendors to make Flipper One-specific ones. Powering all of it is a 24 Wh battery, although the company says it's too early to commit to runtime numbers while active power-optimization work is still landing changes that improve battery life by 1.5x at a time. Alongside the M.2 slot, a 2.54 mm GPIO pin header and a custom threaded mounting grid let users bolt on their own modules with snap-on covers, the same DIY-extensibility approach the Flipper Zero leaned on. None of the Flipper Zero's signature radios are onboard, meaning that there's no sub-GHz transceiver, NFC reader, or low-frequency RFID. Anything in that family arrives by way of M.2 modules, which means the Flipper One is closer in spirit to a small Linux SBC or pentest machine than it is to its sibling. The handheld itself does keep the visual lineage, though: a small monochrome LCD at 256x144 with the same amber-tinted aesthetic the Flipper Zero made its identity, paired with physical buttons and a touchpad. A demo Pavel Zhovner posted in April showed the device pulling 730 Mbit/s while acting as a USB-C-to-Ethernet bridge to an iPhone. The framing Flipper uses for why this isn't a Zero replacement leans on OSI network layers; the company says that the Flipper Zero operates at Layer 0, with direct interaction with physical signals through NFC, sub-GHz radio, infrared, low-frequency RFID, and GPIO. The Flipper One sits a layer above, as an IP-class machine designed to terminate or analyze network traffic, run packet captures, host services, and process data locally once that traffic arrives. The announcement is explicit that the two products "operate at different layers of the stack and will continue to be developed in parallel." The software stack is Debian 13 with KDE Plasma over Wayland, currently shipping Linux 7.0.0-rc3 on the mainline side with a 6.1.141 BSP kernel as a fallback. On top of that, Flipper is building "Flipper OS," a profile-based layer of preconfigured snapshots so you can switch between configurations the same way SteamOS swaps between gaming and desktop modes. A separate menu-driven framework called FlipCTL wraps standard CLI tools like ping, nmap, and traceroute into something usable on the small built-in display, with the long-term goal of being installable via apt install flipctl. An offline LLM running on the NPU is meant to help with device configuration and on-device assistance. Mainline-first Linux, not a vendor-BSP-first device A rarity for this class of hardware Plenty of Arm Linux devices claim to be open. Almost none of them ship with full mainline kernel support out of the box. Rockchip platforms in particular have historically depended on vendor board support packages, downstream kernel forks pinned years behind upstream, and binary blobs to get basic peripherals working. The Flipper One is built around the idea that you should be able to compile a stock Linux kernel, drop it on the device, and have everything work. Getting there is hard, and Flipper isn't doing it alone. The company has partnered with Collabora, the open-source engineering firm that handles a meaningful chunk of upstream Linux work for hardware vendors. Collabora has been mainlining RK3576 support since 2024, with initial kernel support landing in Linux 6.12 in December of that year, covering clocks, power management, storage, network, I2C, SPI, pin multiplexing, and GPU. Hardware H.264 and H.265 decoder support was merged into Linux 7.0 earlier this year. The remaining gaps include USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode, NPU driver work, and a single proprietary blob: the DDR memory initialization code that comes from Rockchip's rkbin repository in binary form only. The relevant GitHub issue is blunt about what it is. "RK3576 can these days work with nearly all opensource code, except for the earliest part which initializes the DDR RAM. It is only available in binary form from Rockchip's rkbin repository, so it's unknown how it works and what exactly it does." Removing it would make the Flipper One one of a very small number of consumer Arm platforms running entirely on open code from reset onward. Flipper is openly asking the community to help, but the company is unbothered about the timeline. The blob is "just a few kilobytes in size" and handles initial hardware initialization, with the company saying that "there is nothing fatal or particularly concerning about it being closed-source." The plan is to lean on Rockchip to open it (which the vendor has already done for other projects) and to fall back on community or in-house reverse engineering if that doesn't pan out. Either way, it won't block the device from shipping. The same goes for TEE-OS, the secure-world boot stage. RK3576 isn't supported in upstream OP-TEE, and Rockchip's technical reference manual doesn't document the security hardware blocks. Flipper's wording is unusually direct, asking for help "in obtaining the relevant documents and/or in implementing OP-TEE support for RK3576." Every aspect of the build process is open, including the most critical aspects that will determine if the project can even ship. The Flipper One is built in the open Anyone can help Most "open" hardware announcements involve a future promise to publish schematics, a tagline about community involvement, and not much else. The Flipper One arrives with six public repositories already on GitHub, an Altium 365 space holding schematics (though inaccessible at the time of writing), PCB layouts, Gerbers, BOMs, and STEP files, and a Developer Portal that organizes everything into seven sub-projects: hardware, mechanics, Linux and CPU software, MCU firmware, user interface, documentation, and testing. The repositories themselves are interesting. flipperone-mcu-firmware is the RP2350 codebase, with open issues including features like a power-bank output mode and a screen for showing the Linux boot log on the small display. flipperone-linux-build-scripts is a general-purpose RK3576 image builder that already targets multiple non-Flipper boards including the Radxa Rock 4D, ArmSoM Sige5, and Firefly's ROC-RK3576-PC. flipperone-hardware shows the device is on its second major PCB revision, with a long list of issues from a manufacturing partner covering 0201 component spacing, screw clearances, and connector land patterns. Across all six repos, the opened issues line up exactly with the technical gaps Zhovner has described: the DDR blob, NPU support in mainline Linux and Mesa, OP-TEE for RK3576, mainline hardware video decoding aimed at smooth 4K and 8K playback in mpv, RK3576 boot-flow documentation, and a stray FreeRTOS debugger fix on the MCU side. The Developer Portal auto-aggregates all of these onto a single "Open tasks" page, so contributors don't have to scrape multiple repos to find what needs doing. More code is on the way, too. One open issue in the build-scripts repo is titled simply "Publish all repositories required to build the image," and OpenWRT is tracked as a future build target alongside Debian. Internal Confluence documentation is also still being migrated into the public repo as the project opens up further. Whether it actually ships is up in the air There are a lot of doubts The announcement is unusually honest about how uncertain this all is. Zhovner's own blog post closes with this admission: "There's a lot of uncertainty in this project, along with technical challenges and financial risks (like the current RAM chip crisis)." He's said something similar in earlier Telegram posts, framing the choice as "be a naïve dreamer" versus "be a tough, pragmatic businessman; don't take risks, forget about dreams." The bill of materials has been a problem. The RAM shortage isn't a Flipper-specific issue. AI datacenter demand has driven DRAM prices hard upward, hitting everyone who needs to ship hardware with meaningful memory budgets onboard, and Flipper, unlike Raspberry Pi, doesn't have an established revenue stream to absorb that on an unproven product. The Flipper One's 8 GB of RAM puts it on the wrong side of that curve, and a device aimed at on-device AI workloads can't realistically ship with much less than it currently has. To really drive the point home, the announcement defers all the specifics: "developer hardware availability, pricing, and consumer release timing will be announced in a future update." Prototypes exist, PCBs are on their second major revision, and the company is hiring around the project, all of which suggests Flipper still intends to ship. The question is what the shipping configuration looks like, at what price, and whether the BOM ever stabilizes long enough to commit to one. The company did offer one directional anchor when asked: it'll "do our best to keep the device no more expensive than $350 in the base configuration without the cellular module." That's not far off the Flipper Zero's $200 once you factor in that the Zero's Wi-Fi dev board is a separate add-on too, which keeps the Flipper One squarely in hobbyist/enthusiast territory rather than pushing it into prosumer network-tool pricing. Hardware-wise, the device is currently at the EVT stage with working prototypes in hand and core functionality operational, although the company cautions that some components may still change. The prioritization for software work flows directly from that: hardware can't be patched after shipping, so anything needed to validate the PCB is taking precedence. USB-C DP Alt Mode is one of the active fronts, since the team needs to rule out driver issues to know whether the board layout is correct, and there's a substantial amount of MCU-to-CPU interconnect work still ahead, particularly around moving Power Delivery handling out of Linux and down to the MCU, which Flipper describes as difficult so far. Things like the NPU and hardware video decode, by contrast, are explicitly post-launch problems. As the company put it, those "can be implemented after the device has already shipped to users -- even a year later." What's being announced today is closer to a transparent development update than a traditional product launch. The hardware works, the software is targeting full mainline Linux, the Collabora partnership has upstream kernel commits going back to 2024, and the Developer Portal already exists with task trackers, architecture documents, and a live kernel-status matrix. The call for contributors comes with specific issues attached, not vague invitations. For anyone interested in the Linux side of consumer hardware, this is one of the few hardware announcements in years that's actually pushing vendor practice toward open kernels and away from binary blobs. For everyone else, the answer is to wait. The Flipper One isn't for sale and may not be for some time. Flipper is asking for help, not orders, and they've been clear about why. You can find out how to help by checking out the official announcement post.

This New Flipper Device Is Like a Pocket-Sized Linux PC

The project is in an open "built in public" development phase with no announced release date or pricing. Flipper Devices, the company behind the semi-infamous Flipper Zero "hacking" multi-tool, is developing a Linux-powered mini-PC with the goal of creating a "truly open hardware platform." The Flipper One is described as a pocket-sized ARM device for high-performance computing, IP networking, and on-device AI use. The device is in development, so there is no price or release date as yet. The Flipper One is being built on a Rockchip RK3576 processor and the modular design means it can be expanded. "Flipper Zero taught us how much you can do with a tightly scoped, open product and a community that pushes it further than you can. Flipper One is what happens when we apply the same approach to a much bigger problem -- building a fully open ARM Linux device that doesn't go obsolete the moment it ships," Pavel Zhovner, Co-founder and CEO of Flipper Devices, said in a press release. In keeping with the Flipper "open everything" ethos, the Flipper One is a community developed project, and anyone who wants to can check in and/or help out through the Developer Portal. Network debugging: The Flipper One will feature high-speed connectivity, including Ethernet, wi-fi 6E, and optional 5G, allowing it to function as an advanced network debugging tool. On-Device AI: The Flipper One will have local AI hardware acceleration, so it will be able to handle compute-heavy tasks without needing a cloud connection. Wireless analysis: The device will capture and analyze wireless traffic and network signals in real time. If you work in network administration, you probably already know why you need or don't need a Flipper One, but if you're just a casual tech enthusiast or tinkerer, it might provide a powerful sandbox. Here are some potential uses:

The Flipper Zero's ambitious sibling was just announced -- and the company needs your help

When not writing, Dave enjoys spending time with his family, running, playing the guitar, camping, and serving in his community. His favorite place is the Blue Ridge Mountains, and one day he hopes to retire there (hopefully his fear of heights will have retired by then, too!). Summary Flipper Devices has announced the Flipper One, a sibling to the popular Flipper Zero. Flipper One is a modular Linux device with incredible flexibility. The company needs help with development and has opened a developer portal where anyone can contribute. The Flipper Zero has gained notoriety as a popular tool for tinkerers (and anyone who wants to change the channel on a public TV). On May 21, Flipper Devices publicly announced the Flipper One, a new device with a different set of goals. The announcement was accompanied by a call for help from the community, because Flipper One is definitely not ready for prime time. Related This Linux shell gives you the terminal features Bash forgot to add Finally a terminal that treats modern Linux tools as the baseline, not an afterthought. Posts By Afam Onyimadu What is Flipper One? A modular Linux cyberdeck Flipper Zero is focused on physical signals, like radio waves. Flipper One, despite the similar name, is a different beast entirely, and the company emphasizes that it is meant for different purposes. Flipper One's big claim to fame is that it will run a full Linux distribution -- you'll be able to connect a monitor and peripherals and have a full desktop Linux experience. The Flipper One is focused on networking connectivity, with Gigabit Ethernet, USB Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 6E. It also has a modular design with an M.2 expansion slot, so you can add a 5G modem (or SSD, or several other modules). Between the Linux support and the M.2 slot, the Flipper One is exceptionally flexible, which is the point -- the developers want an "open Linux platform you can build almost anything on." Some of the examples provided include "a 5G-enabled IP network analyzer" and "an SDR-powered radio signal analyzer with local AI." Does this replace the Flipper Zero? The developers are adamant that Flipper One is not meant to replace Flipper Zero, but rather sit alongside it. The two devices are meant for different tasks: Flipper Zero is an "offline access system multi-tool," while Flipper One is a "network-connected Linux platform." In other words, they're different tools for different use cases. Ambitious goals For the project as a whole, the company's stated goals include: Building the "most open and best-documented ARM computer in the world, with full mainline Linux kernel support." Push vendors to open up closed-source code. Build an "unconventional hardware platform." "Rethink how people use Linux and develop our own GUI framework with wrappers around existing CLI utilities." The Flipper One Developer Portal Community development at its finest The Flipper Devices team is clear -- Flipper One is not ready. The company says this is "a project we've been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times." The announcement aims to both shed light on the device and also ask the community for help. Subscribe for deep Flipper One insights in our newsletter Join the newsletter for in-depth coverage of Flipper One and other open Linux hardware projects. Get developer-focused explainers, modular build ideas, hands-on guides, and curated resources to help you follow development and contribute effectively. Get Updates By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime. To that end, Flipper is implementing an open development process and has created the Flipper One Developer Portal. This portal is a wiki with all the development documentation for the project. Anyone is encouraged to jump in and find ways to participate in development. "Whether you're an engineer, software developer, designer, or simply an enthusiastic user with ideas to share, you're welcome to participate in development and help shape Flipper One," the company says.