Anyone know how to create your own built-at-home FlipperZero from cheap Electronic components found online? The real Flipper costs $200+ (excluding external components) So I wanted to build my own, but couldn’t find any tutorials online.
Can someone help build the entire flipper zero with no missed features
Build a Flipper Zero Clone on ESP32 for $34 — six cheap boards, one browser flash, no soldering-iron surprisesThe $200 Flipper’s design is open source. Nobody built a “Flipper clone” tutorial because the pieces sit scattered under five other project names. This puts them together, priced.
1️⃣ BUY the parts list below ~$34
2️⃣ FLASH one firmware, from a browser free
3️⃣ WIRE six small boards onto one brain board once
4️⃣ DONE Sub-GHz, NFC, IR, BadUSB, BLE, Wi-Fi
THE PARTS — $34.30 total
Search each part’s name on AliExpress or LCSC — any listing at or under that price works.
THE FLASH
open bruce.computer/flasher in Chrome, plug the board in, click Flash — no drivers, no software to install
that installs Bruce, one free firmware that runs all six features from a single menu
for a build guide that lists these exact same parts, the fork BruceButBetter has its own flasher too: yoursel71.github.io/BruceButBetter
THE WIRE-UP
Each small board connects to the brain board with 2 to 6 wires. Nothing shares a wire with anything else — every board gets its own path.
Board’s own pin guide: Espressif’s ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 page. Leave pins 19, 20, 35, 36, 37, 43, 44 alone — the board itself needs those.
| Board | Pins used | Wiring guide |
|---|---|---|
| CC1101 (Sub-GHz) | 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | guide |
| PN532 (NFC) | 17, 18 | guide |
| RDM6300 (125 kHz) | 16 | guide |
| IR LED | 4 | — |
| IR receiver | 5 | — |
| iButton probe | 6 (+ a small resistor to power) | — |
| Screen | 17, 18 (same wires as the PN532, they can share) | — |
| 6 buttons | 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47 | — |
| Battery gauge | 1 | — |
Battery: one small charger board, one small battery, no extra parts. About 3–4 hours of heavy use, 9–10 hours normal.
Case: no ready-made one exists for this exact combo yet. YAPP_Box is a free tool — type in the board size, it draws a case to print.
Two things this $34 build cannot do
Fake out a 125 kHz key fob. It reads them, copies them, writes new ones — it just cannot broadcast a fake signal like the real Flipper does. So what: cloning onto a blank fob still works, only live spoofing does not.
Fully clone a Mifare access card. The NFC chip here reads and writes most cards, not every type used for office door badges. So what: home and hobby NFC projects work fine, a full office-badge clone needs a pricier NFC chip swapped in.
One more tool, one more flash. GPIO/logic-analyzer tools live in a second free firmware, ESP32-Bit-Pirate — switching to it means reflashing from the browser again, about a minute.
Buy the list, flash Bruce, wire the six boards — a $200 gadget for $34, with both real limits told upfront.
if unsure it’s better to just buy one and tinker around with it see how it works or reach out to others who own one honestly a lot of the videos break down the software works and where you can buy components separately focus on similar tools as well as other member mentioned they really piggy back off each other
The Flipper clone that actually exists — Bruce, a part list, and a browser
@Stick_Chick — you could not find a tutorial because nobody calls it a Flipper. The firmware that turns an ESP32 into one is called Bruce (release 1.16, July 2026), and the boards it supports are all under $10.
The build sheet| part | what it unlocks | ~price |
|---|---|---|
| ESP32-S3 N8R8 (or a LILYGO T-Embed CC1101 Plus, which has screen, knob and battery in one board) | the brain, Wi-Fi, BLE, native USB for BadUSB | $8–34 |
| CC1101 SPI module | Sub-GHz 300–928 MHz — sniff and replay remotes, gates, sensors | $3 |
| PN532 | NFC 13.56 MHz — read, write, emulate cards | $8 |
| ST7789 240×240 screen + buttons | the whole menu system | $5 |
| TSOP38238 + IR LED | IR receive and transmit — every TV in the building | $2 |
| nRF24L01+PA/LNA | 2.4 GHz — mousejack, proprietary keyboards, IoT | $4 |
| RDM6300 | 125 kHz LF RFID — the hotel-key and pet-chip band | $6 |
| Optional: NEO-6M GPS, Si5351 clock | wardriving, signal generation | $6 / $5 |
Bruce But Better publishes this exact list with photos and flashes the firmware in your browser — no toolchain, no esptool, plug in USB-C and pick the board. Cyclik-227/ESP32-Flipper has a photographed build of the same thing, and Bruce-Smoochie adds a case and a battery.
$34 buys you Sub-GHz, NFC, IR, BadUSB, BLE and Wi-Fi. The real Flipper is $200.
What it does the moment it boots The honest 20%The Flipper has an STM32 with a proper RF front end, a 125 kHz reader with a real coil, and a firmware written for that exact hardware. An ESP32 build nails Sub-GHz, NFC, IR, BadUSB and the radios — and stays a step behind on iButton, the low-frequency analogue side, and battery life. That is why the clone costs $34 and the original costs $200, and it is why people build one before deciding whether they need the other.
Two more firmware worth knowingedgehax S3-PRO documents what works on real hardware today, which is more useful than any spec sheet.
Legality, briefly: receiving is fine almost everywhere, transmitting and replaying is not, unless it is your own device on your own property. Test on your own things.
Thank you so much 
Can you tell me more some more modules or components I can add to my device to make it do more stuff?
Can you provide a tutorial for Esp32 - wifi , ble etc Jammer?
@Stick_Chick — GPS and an SD card. About $9 together, and they change what the device is for.
@Tem_porary — a $30 USB dongle hears everything from 24 MHz to 1.7 GHz, legally, and it teaches you the radio layer better than any jammer would. Both of you end up in the same five places:
Where the builds live, with schematics and code
The radio heaven, and the legal way to be a menace
The Flipper world, which is where this whole thread started
Where the weird parts come fromTindie is the maker marketplace: modules that exist in runs of fifty, sold by the person who designed them. That is where the boards on Hackaday come from, and often the only place to buy them.
A parts list ages in a month and assumes you already know what you want. A place keeps answering: every new module, every new firmware, every person who solved your problem last week. Ask Hackaday for “ESP32 GPS logger” and you get twenty builds with photos; ask a parts list and you get a shopping cart.
And on jamming specifically — the spectrum is licensed, interference is a criminal matter, and the RTL-SDR route gives you the same thrill legally: you can hear every signal in the air, identify it with SigidWiki, and learn exactly how the radio layer works. Reception is where the knowledge is. Transmission at somebody else’s equipment is where the fines are.
Start with Hackaday and RTL-SDR. One gives you the projects, the other gives you the airwaves, and neither will ever run out. 
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