Flipper R&D
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Flipper Research & Development. Behind-the-scenes engineering, technical challenges, debugging, and dev insights. Community help requests → #FlipperHelpWanted
London, UK
Joined October 2025
This account shares behind-the-scenes development of Flipper hardware and software — engineering progress, technical challenges, debugging, and experiments while building Flipper One and related tools. ⚠️Posts here will be deeply technical and written by the R&D team. Sometimes
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Flipper One mechanics are now open We’re releasing another repository — Flipper One Mechanics. This repo contains the source 3D models of the enclosure, back plates, and modules: https://t.co/OU33XTfPzR You can also explore the model in Onshape directly in your browser or
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Wayland + KDE visual artifacts on RK3576 (Panfrost, mainline kernel) When running Wayland with KDE on the mainline kernel we observe visual artifacts on the display. The artifacts appear as colored lines that look like "ghosted" fragments from moving parts of application
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Flipper One is based on the RK3576 CPU, so you can start participating in our Linux kernel, drivers, and distro development today using an SBC with the same chip. Here are the boards we currently build and test images for — you can buy one and be ready when we fully open the
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Operating mode naming Flipper One has several operating modes, and we need clear and unambiguous names for each of them. 👉 To contribute, please read the issue comments: https://t.co/SFXaP7eAty
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White-label RP2350 Bootloader USB properties We need a way to white-label the USB properties exposed by the RP2350 bootloader (e.g., vendor name, product name, and related descriptors). Currently this can be achieved using an OTP configuration hack described here:
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Starting today, we’re opening the Flipper One source code repositories step by step. The first repo is now public: MCU firmware: https://t.co/zzv7R0PLNh Flipper One uses a dual-processor architecture: * Low-Power MCU (Raspberry Pi RP2350) Buttons, LCD display, touchpad, and
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Installing bmaptool on macOS isn’t very convenient right now. The current workaround is using pipx, but it would be much nicer to have a proper Homebrew formula. Help welcome 👇 https://t.co/fity7UEVWQ
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Currently there is no easy way to install bmaptool on macOS. At the moment it can be installed like this: pipx install https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool/archive/refs/tags/v3.9.0.zip However,...
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We use bmaptool to speed up image flashing — it’s a fantastic tool.But we’ve run into SD cards that report successful writes while silently corrupting data. We’d like to add an option to verify blocks while writing. Community help welcome 👇 #FlipperHelpWanted
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Sometimes an image is written successfully with no errors, but it is actually corrupted on some SD cards when read back. Currently I verify the image with an extra command: # Write image to disk bm...
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