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
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/samsung-bricks-smart-tvs/

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
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/wireless-leds-arent-really-magic/

[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/)

Detect Starlink Satellites Passing By
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/detect-starlink-satellites-passing-by/

The Starlink beta has semi-officially ended, but it seems as though the global chip shortage is still limiting how many satellites are flying around the world for broadband internet access …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/detect-starlink-satellites-passing-by/)

OpenCV Hack Chat
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/opencv-hack-chat/

Join us on Wednesday, December 1 at noon Pacific for the OpenCV Hack Chat with Brandon Gilles! A lot of what we take for granted these days existed only in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/opencv-hack-chat/)