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PWNagotchi · Deep Dive · 12 volumes

PWNagotchi

The most adorable pen-test tool that's ever sat on a clip-on lanyard.

A Pi Zero W "Tamagotchi for Wi-Fi handshakes" — RL-driven captive-portal hunter.

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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 PWNagotchi Volume 1 — Overview, Decision Tree, and the AI Controversy What it is, what it isn't, why it exists, who built it, and which build path to pick
  2. Vol 2 PWNagotchi Volume 2 — Hardware Substrate: Pi Zero W, Pi Zero 2 W, and the Radio Why this specific compute board, what the differences between revisions are, and how the USB-OTG-only layout drives the cabling story
  3. Vol 3 PWNagotchi Volume 3 — The Display Ecosystem Waveshare 2.13" v1-v4, Pimoroni Inky pHAT, IT8951 large panels, and the color e-paper options that Fancygotchi unlocks
  4. Vol 4 PWNagotchi Volume 4 — Cases & Enclosures, with a chapter-length deep dive on Mike J. Kelly's Motorola Advisor pager mod The wild case ecosystem — 3D-printed brick, clamshell, pocket; vendor pre-builts; and the iconic donor-shell case-mods, anchored by the Motorola Advisor
  5. Vol 5 PWNagotchi Volume 5 — The Software Stack: bettercap, pwngrid, and the daemon What runs when you boot a Pwnagotchi, how the parts talk to each other, and where the file layout lives
  6. Vol 6 PWNagotchi Volume 6 — The A2C Reinforcement-Learning Agent What is and isn't AI here, what the actor and critic networks actually look at, and what the hyperparameters in config.toml mean
  7. Vol 7 PWNagotchi Volume 7 — Fancygotchi: the color-display theme engine What Fancygotchi is, how it sits on top of jayofelony, how the theme JSON + sprite system works, and how to write custom faces
  8. Vol 8 PWNagotchi Volume 8 — Installation, Configuration, First-Run Flash the jayofelony image, SSH over USB-OTG, walk through config.toml, calibrate the e-ink, and confirm the first capture
  9. Vol 9 PWNagotchi Volume 9 — The Plugins Ecosystem PiSugar, GPS, web UI, AutoUpdate, AircrackOnly, OHCAPI, fix_brcmf, gps-listener, bt-tether — what the canonical plugins do and which ones you actually want enabled
  10. Vol 10 PWNagotchi Volume 10 — Operations & Field Use AUTO / MANU / AI modes, the pwngrid social layer and its privacy implications, wardriving workflow, and the legal envelope of every Pwnagotchi deployment
  11. Vol 11 PWNagotchi Volume 11 — Programming: Custom Plugins, Themes, and Display Drivers The Plugin class lifecycle hooks, writing a Fancygotchi face theme, and authoring an e-ink display driver from scratch
  12. Vol 12 PWNagotchi Volume 12 — Comparison vs Alternatives, Legal & Ethics, Laminate-ready Cheatsheet Where Pwnagotchi sits in the broader Wi-Fi-capture lineup, the legal envelope you cannot ignore, and the laminate-ready field card synthesizing everything from Vols 1-11