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I tried using a Flipper with some NFC stickers so I wouldn't have to carry around so many FOBs and cards. It turns out that the Flipper does not excel at this task. It complained that the NFC stickers I bought were non-writable. And it couldn't read all the sectors on some NFC tags. However, I was able to use the Android MCT app to write to the same stickers and read the tags the flipper couldn't read. Cloning required copying strings to the clipboard, which is something the Flipper's UI is not really designed for.


> It complained that the NFC stickers I bought were non-writable.

I'm not an expert at NFC but after playing around with Flipper I've learned that there are different types of NFC devices and they aren't at all interchangeable. They aren't just dumb devices but actual computers that power up and do shit (I think).


Yeah, Flipper as a concept sounds cool but then I found out the current implementation is rather half-baked and comes with a lot of limitations. And the community is not that welcoming either.




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