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Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by phasE89 on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:14AM (#41289618)
What do you use it for?
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by nunobrito on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:25AM (#41289670)
The IR blaster is the most common usage. After that, some games are good. Pass hours playing scorched earth while travelling.

Also give it for my kids to play instead of letting use the phone and browse random stuff on youtube.

Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by copperx on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:10AM (#41290325)
I'm glad you've found an use for it. Its most common use is a paperweight at home.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by theshrike79 on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:18AM (#41290381)
Dunno about the current prices, but it was a REALLY expensive paperweight for a long time. People paid hundreds of dollars for one.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by sulandor on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:12AM (#41290760)
nah - a "good" paperweight can easily rival the cost of a car
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by reaperducer on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:06AM (#41291167)
I see you've been shopping with my wife.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by dogecoinbase on Monday August 19, 2024 @02:26PM (#41293440)
I simply park my car on top of papers that I want to keep in place -- one less paperweight to buy.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by sunnybeetroot on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:06PM (#41296142)
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by nunobrito on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @02:28PM (#41312839)
Yeah. Flipper version is just another clone from https://www.whicken.com/scorch/

The original one was funnier because you could change the config for the different weapons.

Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by acheong08 on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:12AM (#41290759)
Not OP but I still use mine quite frequently.

- My family’s old subhz car keys are dying so I cloned it & use the flipper when the real one doesn’t work. It’s a car from before the 2000s so no security whatsoever.

- Apartment, lift, gym rfid. Don’t need to bring multiple sets of cards

- IR is also helpful as a backup while I procrastinate going out and buying batteries for some remotes.

Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by theturtletalks on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:27PM (#41292416)
I thought many gym and apartment key fobs can’t be replicated due to rolling keys. Has this been addressed or flipper works on older fobs?
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by panki27 on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:48PM (#41292597)
Rolling keys is more of an RF thing, fobs are NFC or RFID (rolling key is still vulnerable to a simple replay attack).

For NFC/RFID it depends entirely on the card. You can easily clone Mifare Classic, but on newer ones there's no way I know of, and the software does not (yet) have support for Legic (which has been broken for over a decade).

Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by acheong08 on Monday August 19, 2024 @11:08PM (#41296389)
I’m in Malaysia. We still think RFID is a new thing
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by renewiltord on Monday August 19, 2024 @11:42AM (#41291989)
Friends and I make keyfobs to our apartment buildings. The HOA fee is $100. But the fob is a few cents.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by dpifke on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:52PM (#41292630)
My dogs' microchips have a body temperature sensor. When one of them is acting like they might be sick, I can take their temperature with via my Flipper's RFID reader.
Re:FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator by kstrauser on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:35PM (#41292954)
Not OP, but I've used it to clone (my own!) hotel key cards. I've accidentally left my key in the room when I unlocked the door, then absentmindedly tossed the card onto the dresser instead of putting it right back into my wallet. It's nice to have a backup in my bag.

Other hotels have an iPhone app you can use to unlock your door. That's another nice backup, but I've found I can have my Flipper out and the room door open faster than I can open my phone, find the app, launch it, inevitably have to log back in because it's been more than 30 seconds since I last opened it, etc.