Have you ever tried waving your hand around like a magic wand and summoning a calculator? We would guess not since you’d probably look a little silly doing so. That …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/28/the-calculator-charm-calculatorium-leviosa/)

Z80 Video Output Via The Raspberry Pi Pico
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Building basic computers from the ground up is a popular pastime in the hacker community. [Kevin] is one such enthusiast, and decided to whip up a video interface for his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/28/z80-video-output-via-the-raspberry-pi-pico/)

How To Easily Set Up Secure OTA Firmware Updates on ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/how-to-easily-set-up-secure-ota-firmware-updates-on-esp32/

After an electronic IoT device has been deployed into the world, it may be necessary to reprogram or update it. But if physical access to the device (or devices) is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/how-to-easily-set-up-secure-ota-firmware-updates-on-esp32/)

Samsung Bricks Smart TVs
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Composite, brick from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick#/media/File:Brick.jpg, Samsung smart TV from Samsung India press release https://news.samsung.com/in/samsung-announces-44-new-tv-models-in-suhd-tv-smart-tv-and-joy-beat-range-with-11-meaningful-innovations
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/brick-feature.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/brick-feature.jpg?w=800">Earlier this Fall, a Samsung warehouse in South Africa was robbed and the thieves got away with a quantity of smart televisions. Samsung proceeded to implement a little-known feature called …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/samsung-bricks-smart-tvs/)

Prusa XL Goes Big, But That’s Only Half the Story
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For a few years now it’s been an open secret that Prusa Research was working on a larger printer named, imaginatively enough, the Prusa XL. Positioned at the opposite end …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/prusa-xl-goes-big-but-thats-only-half-the-story/)

Wireless LEDs Aren’t Really Magic
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[Atomic14] bought some wireless LEDs that receive power from a base station. They were very neatly packaged, but — we like it — he took one apart and made his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/wireless-leds-arent-really-magic/)

But Think of the (World Wide) Users!
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/but-think-of-the-world-wide-users/

History is full of stories about technology that makes sense to the designer but doesn’t really fit the needs of the users. Take cake mixes. In 1929, a man named …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/but-think-of-the-world-wide-users/)