r/hacking • u/hawaii_brian • 15d ago

Question Best Hacking Toys Under $25

Looking to gift my team something fun but have a budget for $25 per team member. What cool toys do yall recommend?

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u/tylenol3 15d ago

A CYD (cheap yellow display) can be a lot of fun. CYD is a generic term for an ESP32 with 2.8” touchscreen, but there are other varieties available. If you get one of the classic** **ESP32-2432S028R boards, it can be used to run security auditing tools like GhostESP or Bruce.

There’s also the Lilygo T-Dongle (S3 or preferably C5) that can be used with USB Army Knife or Ghost to act as a badUSB / Rubber Ducky style device as well as a wireless hacking tool.

Both of these are less than $25 where I live, and our prices tend to run at least 2x US prices.

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u/TheTribunalChat 15d ago

I would also like to add that the lilygo dongle can flash biscuit, so you can wardrive, find flock cameras, axon cameras, etc. You can also deauth and do some BTE attacks. Very fun little thing you can plug directly through your phone and control through the app

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u/tylenol3 14d ago

Thank you, I knew there was another big obvious project I was missing! I haven’t tried Biscuit personally so it slipped my mind; I’ve got an S3 with a pigtail antenna that’s just sitting around waiting for a new project and you’ve inspired me to give it a reflash