Flipper Devices has unveiled the Flipper One, a portable open-source hardware platform that takes the hacker-friendly ethos of the Flipper Zero and aims it squarely at networking, wireless research, and Edge AI. The company is careful to stress that this is not a successor to the STM32-based Flipper Zero, which remains in the lineup. Instead, the Flipper One is a different class of device entirely: a handheld Arm Linux computer with dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, and room for a 4G or 5G modem in an internal M.2 slot.
The brains are a Rockchip RK3576 with four Cortex-A72 cores at 2.2 GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.8 GHz, a Mali-G52 MC3 GPU, and a 6 TOPS NPU that supports INT4, INT8, INT16, BF16, and TF32. It is paired with 8GB of LPDDR5, 64GB of UFS 2.2 storage, and a UHS-I microSD slot. A Raspberry Pi RP2350 dual-core Cortex-M33/RISC-V microcontroller handles low-level control and drives a 256 x 144 pixel grayscale display behind Gorilla Glass. Video output runs to HDMI 2.1 at up to 4Kp120 or DisplayPort 1.4 over USB-C, audio goes through a Nuvoton NAU8822 codec to a 3.5 mm jack and built-in speaker, and a 20-pin GPIO header exposes pins from both the CPU and MCU for hardware tinkering.
The headline software story is the upstreaming work, which Flipper Devices is doing in partnership with Collabora to bring the RK3576 into a full mainline Linux kernel with open-source drivers and no vendor board support package. Collabora has been pushing RK3576 upstream since 2024, with initial SoC support for clocks, power management, storage, networking, and GPU landing in Linux 6.12, followed by hardware H.264 and H.265 decode reaching Linux 7.0 earlier this year. Remaining open items include power management tuning, USB DisplayPort Alt-mode, and NPU enablement in the mainline kernel, while the DDR trainer binary (which handles RAM initialization in the boot chain) is the last known firmware blob yet to be replaced with open source code. The company concedes that Wi-Fi and cellular radio firmware will be hard to free entirely, with regulatory compliance complicating the radio side. The userland is a Debian-based Flipper OS with a FlipCTL UI framework, and live upstreaming status, build scripts, and RP2350 firmware are tracked through the Developer Portal and the flipperdevices GitHub organization, which launched with several public repositories alongside schematics, PCB layouts, Gerbers, BOMs, and STEP files. Flipper is actively calling for contributors across seven sub-projects spanning hardware, mechanics, Linux kernel work, MCU firmware, UI, documentation, and testing.
Physically, the Flipper One measures 155 x 67 x 40 mm (6.1 x 2.6 x 1.6 inches), wraps a PC/ABS body in TPU bumpers, and packs a 7,000 mAh battery managed by a TI BQ25792 charger and BQ28Z610 fuel gauge, with 5 to 20 V USB-C PD input. Controls include a directional touchpad, a five-button D-pad, a push-to-talk key, and dedicated Esc, View, Power, Edit, Run, app switcher, and Back buttons. Flipper Devices is not yet taking orders, with developer hardware availability, pricing, and the consumer release window all promised in a future announcement.
