A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Using a single GPIO port on a microcontroller to control N bits of arbitrary parallel binary outputs, e.g., a multi-digital display.

It looks like a cute little dolphin-themed toy, but the Flipper Zero is a surprisingly powerful learning tool for hacking. Here's how I mastered mine—and how you can, too.

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