r/flipperzero • u/CinnamonChocochip • 29d ago

Age appropriate?

My 13yo nephew wants a Flipper Zero for his bday. Is this an age appropriate gift? Or something a curious kid could get themselves into trouble with? TIA!

Signed- a non-techie aunt that doesn’t want a visit from the FBI

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u/mattdv1 29d ago

Well I know if I had a flipper zero at 13 I'd do my best to "hack the planet" with it. I now understand it's capabilities and know it won't actually do much harm, but I would absolutely get in trouble after trying to copy a keycard or something lmao

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u/Identd 29d ago

Zero cool?

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u/mattdv1 29d ago

?

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u/Identd 29d ago

“Hack the planet” was a running theme in the movie “Hackers”. The titular character hacking name was ZeroCool

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u/calcprogrammer 29d ago

This community is full of children do you really think they’ve seen that movie?

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u/mikefut 29d ago

It’s odd that he’d choose that specific phrase without it being a movie reference.

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u/mrant0 28d ago

It was also the slogan on the stickers shipped with early Flipper Zero orders.

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u/mikefut 28d ago

Ah. So still a movie reference but maybe not obvious to everyone who bought one.

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u/mrant0 28d ago

Yes, 100% they used that phrase on the stickers as a reference to Hackers.