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BBC micro:bit

HARDWARE NOT ASSESSED
Micro:bit Educational Foundation · BLE
Project site ↗

A ~$15 nRF51822 board, the reference cheap radio for running Btlejack to sniff, jam and hijack BLE connections.

Lifecycle not assessed: nobody has checked yet whether this tool is still maintained, sold or working. Check the project's own page before relying on it.

COMPATIBLE SOFTWARE & PROJECTS

Btlejack SOFTWARE STALE Damien Cauquil (virtualabs) repo ↗

Sniff, jam and hijack BLE connections from low-cost hardware (BBC micro:bit / nRF51822). Established the practical jam-and-hijack technique for taking over a live connection. Version 2.1.0 (2022) added BBC micro:bit V2 support, but its author reported that on the V2 the detection of access addresses of already-established connections is unreliable, while sniffing new connections works. WHAD with an nRF52840 dongle, both in this catalogue, is an alternative for the same job.

USED IN THE WAYFINDER

Bluetooth Low Energy · AT