Six months of design iterations, sourcing headaches, and a broken oscilloscope later — I am pleased to share a hardware module I designed to extend the Flipper ecosystem for RF security research. This write-up covers the motivation, engineering challenges, capabilities, and responsible-disclosure principles behind the project — and a frank look at a vulnerability that is very much alive in the Maldives today. Left: 3D render of final PCB · Right: Altium Designer PCB layout view Why I Built It The trigger was reading the original MouseJack disclosure by Bastille Networks. It made me realize that a class of peripherals most people assume to be harmless — the cheap wireless mouse on your desk — can be weaponized from a car park. I wanted a research platform small enough to carry in a jacket pocket, native to the Flipper Zero ecosystem, and capable of passive scanning, protocol analysis, and controlled lab tests. What I...
I have been working on some real time data acquisition and control application designing. Specially micro-controller based hardware designing and prototyping. For testing purposes i am using SIM900A GSM/GPRS module and FTDI UART converter. SIM900A module is connected to PC via FTDI converter. I use putty as a terminal program to communicate with the module. With required baud rates i am able to communicate with the module by sending a simple AT command (AT command set will vary with different modules) just sending AT the module replies with OK. This means module responded to the command sent from PC. Lets go ahead with TCP AT commands to establish a TCP connection to remote server via GPRS connection. I have run socket test software on remote PC and opened port 7777. You have to check your firewall or router settings to allow your preferred port. While the software start listening to port 7777, lets continue with the sending AT commands to module from the PC connec...