DARK3D WARDRIVING HARDWARE HORNET
Most scanning happens through a keyhole: one radio, one channel at a time. The swarm holds six at once on a wired bus, so nothing stops listening in order to talk. The handheld fixes where it was standing to under a meter. Both pocketable, neither conspicuous.
HORNET HANDHELD
HANDHELD
Most wardrivers stop here. We kept going.
| THEIRS | HORNET |
|---|---|
| A quarter of the sky | L1 plus L5 across every constellation |
| Hunting for GPS before you start | You hit the streets running |
| Will not scan without an SD card | Buffers on the board |
| Buy an ESP32 to have a working unit | Soldered down, ready out of the box |
| A screen you squint at | 2 inch IPS |
| Whatever radio someone else picked | Expansion ports for whatever comes |
| Gives out before you do | Up to 11 hours |
| A charging cable and nothing else | Qi wireless charging support |
| Forgets when you set it down | Remembers every mile and every network |
A dropped link costs a reconnect, not a capture. We keep the miles you logged and the networks you scanned for the life of the board. We never forget.
- OUTLINE
- 70.0 x 120.0 mm (2.756 x 4.724 in)
- GNSS
- L1 + L5, all constellations plus IRNSS, -167 dBm
- ACQUISITION
- 1 s hot start, held by a 10 uA backup cell
- MEMORY
- microSD, flash buffer, FRAM odometer
- SCREEN
- 2 inch IPS and a thumb switch, on the device
- POWER
- up to 11 hours, USB-C or Qi charging
- EXPANSION
- two exterior ports, open to whatever gets built for them
HORNET SWARM
SWARM
Six radios riding in a backpack is chaos. We built a fleet instead.
| THEIRS | HORNET |
|---|---|
| Buy every node yourself | Every node on the board, ready out of the box |
| Wires everywhere | Zero rats nest |
| No one in charge | A gateway that runs the fleet |
| Everyone talking over each other | Nodes do one job. Listen, and stream to the gateway without missing a beat |
| Plug into every node like it is a fun part of your day | The gateway pushes firmware to every worker |
| Nothing protecting your captures | Capture integrity from RF to SD |
| An octopus of cables to power it | One supply, budgeted for every node |
| Six nodes and a hard ceiling | 12, 18, 24 nodes. Add swarms |
Building a cluster like this is a project most people abandon. The few who finish end up fighting a tangle every time they take it out, so it lives on a shelf instead of in the car. Everything above, we have solved for you.
- OUTLINE
- 70.0 x 120.0 mm (2.756 x 4.724 in)
- NODES
- 6 scanning, 1 gateway
- REPORTING
- wired bus, never over the air
- ANTENNAS
- one connector per node
- SCREEN
- none. Run it from the handheld, maybe a phone app later
- POWER
- battery, USB-C or Qi charging, aiming at 12 hours
STILL OPEN
AND YOU CAN HELP CRAFT THE ULTIMATE WARDRIVER
The handheld runs the cluster, and it keeps the numbers where you can see them: satellites and lock, battery, what this session has picked up on 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and Bluetooth, and the totals.
Past that, the control surface is still open. A phone app and a browser page are both on the table, and captures are meant to leave for WiGLE and WDGWars on their own rather than wait on you to file them. Which of these gets built first is a question that gets answered in Discord.
HANDHELD FABRICATED, SWARM IN PRODUCTION
TELL US WHICH ONE YOU WANT
(We know you'll probably want both!)
The handheld is back from the fab with its parts ordered, and the swarm is on the line now. Run sizes and prices go to the list first, and so does the date there is something to buy.
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