Ubertooth board for Bluetooth experimentation
posted Nov 26th 2010 12:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: radio hacks
Ubertooth Zero is the first offering in [Michael Ossman's] quest for a Bluetooth sniffing and hacking hardware platform. We’ve seen some of his hacks in the past, like the build-in guitar tuner and some pink pager fiddling. The Ubertooth dongle is his original design based around an LPC1758 ARM Cortex-M3 processor paired with a Texas Instruments 595-CC2400-RTB1 to handle the 2.4 GHz RF communications. Looking at the bill of materials shows a very low cost for the components at just under $30 (if you can get your hands on a PCB to mount them on). He’s written firmware as well as host code to help you up start pulling Bluetooth packets out of the air as quickly as possible.
What can you do with this? That’s up to you, but whatever it is you accomplish, we’d like to hear about it.
Well, you can count me in on this.
If he manages to get this thing into production, he could make a lot of money. Commercial Bluetooth sniffers are insanely overpriced due to lack of competition.