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ESP32 Marauder · Deep Dive · 12 volumes

ESP32 Marauder

One firmware, many devices — DSTIKE, M5Stack, AWOK, custom builds.

The ESP32 Wi-Fi/BLE attack firmware that runs on every ESP32 pentest board.

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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 1 — Series Overview, the Firmware-First Project, the Fork Landscape, and a Decision Tree What Marauder is, what it isn't, the four-fork landscape, where it already runs in tjscientist's lab, and depth indices into Vols 2–12
  2. Vol 2 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 2 — Hardware Reference Platforms and the Host-Module Ecosystem Koko's v6/v6.1 + Mini design walk, DSTIKE Watch, Flipper Devboard, and every owned/aspirational host module
  3. Vol 3 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 3 — Firmware Architecture Repo layout, menu dispatcher, per-board build matrix, scan/attack module pattern, display + SD abstractions
  4. Vol 4 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 4 — Wi-Fi Scanning Subsystems Probe-request sniffer, beacon sniffer, PMKID capture, EAPOL 4-way handshake, AP+client mapping, channel strategy, pcap/csv output
  5. Vol 5 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 5 — Wi-Fi Attack Subsystems Deauth, beacon spam, probe spam, karma probe-response, Evil Portal — frame anatomy, attack patterns, gating, hygiene
  6. Vol 6 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 6 — Bluetooth Subsystems BLE advertising scan, BLE-spam variants (Sour Apple / Swiftpair / Easysetup / Fast Pair), AirTag detection, BT-classic on classic-ESP32 only
  7. Vol 7 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 7 — Fork Landscape Deep Dive Mainline vs Ghost ESP vs Bruce vs Bad Pinguino — feature deltas, decision tree, migration mechanics
  8. Vol 8 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 8 — SD Card Layout, Evil Portal Templates, and Customization Directory tree, FAT32 constraints, beacon-spam SSID format, Evil Portal HTML authoring with per-OS bypass recipes, settings schema
  9. Vol 9 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 9 — Capture Analysis Pipelines pcap → Wireshark / tshark / scapy / hashcat / aircrack-ng / bettercap — the host-side workflow
  10. Vol 10 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 10 — Build Toolchain and Custom Development PlatformIO setup, building from source, adding a custom attack, forking strategy, the web flasher
  11. Vol 11 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 11 — Operational Posture: Detection, Regional/Legal, Power, Thermal What a Wi-Fi IDS sees, regional channel/regulatory considerations, battery sizing, thermal under continuous TX, chain of custody, when NOT to use Marauder
  12. Vol 12 ESP32 Marauder Firmware Volume 12 — Cheatsheet (the laminate-ready field card) Menu maps, attack quick-refs, SD layout, hashcat commands, channel chart, build flags, troubleshooting flows, one-page references