GoKawiilWe're finally ready to talk about Flipper One — a project we've been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times. It's an incredibly hard project, both financially and technically. So today we're going public not with a big shiny announcement, but to tell the whole story straight. Honestly? We're genuinely terrified, and we need your help.
TL;DR With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help. With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
With Flipper One, we’ve set ourselves a list of ambitious goals:
Build the most open and best-documented ARM computer in the world, with full mainline Linux kernel support.
Push vendors to open up their existing closed-source code and ditch binary blobs entirely.
Build an unconventional hardware platform based on a co-processor architecture that pairs a microcontroller with a CPU, and port tons of low-level MCU code.
Rethink how people use Linux and develop our own GUI framework with wrappers around existing CLI utilities.
Many of these goals come with a lot of uncertainty, which is scary. But we believe this is the only way to make a truly meaningful contribution to the open-source community and to education.
What is Flipper One?
Flipper One isn't an upgrade to Flipper Zero — it's a completely different project with its own goals. Flipper One is an open Linux platform you can build almost anything on: from a 5G-enabled IP network analyzer to an SDR-powered radio signal analyzer with local AI. We focused a lot on the hardware expansion system. You can connect high-speed modules to Flipper One over PCI Express, USB 3.0, and SATA interfaces. Add an SDR, a fast SSD, or a cellular modem — just plug in the right module.
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