Hmm, situational awareness of the local wireless environment?

Even when working from a fixed desk, I appreciate alternating desk work with strolling-thinking, when the environment permits it. Now, with incoming HMDs capable of laptop-like angular resolution, I've been exploring what an all-day NYC wander-and-pause setup/build might look like. Mobile local computes are easier now than they've ever been. Perhaps a SFF PC with multiple snap on MCIO/quick-disconnect-water GPUs+radiators? But agentic power demands... strolling with rolling battery luggage? Eep.

So perhaps ultra-light instead, a cloud PC, and always-on mobile networking to it? Multiplexing multiple cellular providers, and wifi? Perhaps with panel and cantennas. And... clueful juggling of the local wireless environment?

To get "for a better signal, I should walk along here rather than there"? Accumulating a personal neighborhood heat map? Or maybe "neat, in this weather, a cantenna gets library community wifi from across the river"? Or ...?

Wireless environment awareness has long seemed to me a fun concept, but with unclear use cases. It just now occurred to me this might be one? If not the Flipper One necessarily, something...

This is the part that sold me:

“Multi-WAN network toolkit — connect up to 5 uplinks. Configure dynamic routing, failover, load balancing, and firewall rules. Use it simultaneously as a Wi‑Fi hotspot and client. Tunnel traffic through a VPN and multiple gateways. ”

I haven’t been able to find an off the shelf device that provides this. I travel a fair bit and when sitting in an airport mobile hotspotting is often unusably slow. If I can use this to securely connect to public unencrypted wifi, it will make travelling that little bit easier

I'm curious has anyone tried hooking up abliterated large language models to systems like this for physical pen-testing? I know there has been lots of hype lately on the capabilities of large language models at finding and exploiting bugs in online software. I know very little about physical pen-testing but would large language models also open up vulnerabilities in the kinds of things this interfaces with or do digital door locks and such have higher levels of security?

I already nabbed my coupon for the pre-order last week - looks super cool!

My F0 is always close at hand, doing everything from being my go-to trigger for whatever random thing I'm playing with, to being an instant output for any signal I'm trying to read. Plus it's a really fun educational tool for myself and various kids around - I keep a load of little NFC 216 tags around, in my bag, in a pouch attached to my Mac, and showing both young and old how to use them, and read them with the phone, leads to conversations about treasure hunts, hiding them in the pub, showing counters with amusing messages...

We used it as a metronome the other day with its blue light, and on the flip side I've been looking at ways to integrate it into my EDC as a modern key, or a programmable keyring. It isn't super-secure, but that does make it easier to work with.

I'm excited about the F1, mainly curious about its logic analyzer capabilities, since I'm actually designing and building one - even it is fifty times worse than a commercial one, I just want to know how they work. And these little devices help find out how other things work.

I really like my zero, I don't use it daily, nor would I want to.

But when I do actually need it, for doing something like reading/flashing SPI, I'm very happy I have it.

Related - others?

Flipper One – we need your help - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647 - May 2026 (482 comments)

Flipper One Tech Specs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046 - May 2026 (177 comments)

I wish they would sell more replacement parts for the old ones. Like the main board or the sub boards. I have broken mine twice from daily pocket use in wet environments and I don't feel like scrounging parts anymore.

The High Boy is a similar device that seems to incorporate radio and network, but I think it has a few less features?

https://highboy.com.br/

Just last week I was trying to sell my Flipper Zero as I don't use it. Even though it's legal, my listings have been deleted as the platforms are overzealous as it "might be used for hacking".

Well, if anyone is looking for one in Europe, let me know.

That’s pretty cool you can dock it to full-fat Linux it looks like?

Is this going to also be at some nose-bleed sky-high ransom price like everything else computer these days?

What are we looking at? $400? $500?

Just as a reminder, last year, as in 2025, a raspberry pi with 8gb was $89... so please don't tell me that paying $400 or $500 for this is normal and expected.

How long is the pre-order window? I didn't see that on the site, but might have missed it.

i have my og flipper gathering dust :tears:

I read the page but not being an expert on Flipper I am not confident I can tell the difference from the Flipper Zero.

Maybe this should be the link: https://flipper.net/products/flipper-one-preorder

Sigh, all I wanted was a Zero successor with a more powerful MCU to mess around with, this seems more like a mini PC of sorts.

Battery life?!

Also, this feels.. redundant, i already have those in my laptop, unlike flipper zero, it was about radio, rfid, nfc, ir, among others with great battery life. Right now my laptop i had it customized with modular 5g modem, SDR, meshcore, alfa, among others.

My only concern with ordering a Flipper One is import controls. I've heard of Zeros getting seized in customs.

what are their connection with Russian Federation ? all their job ads asked for russian iirc.

Is it wise to buy this until someone has taken one apart and checked for backdoors?