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!
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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
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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
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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/)

Scrolling Name Badge Is Sure to Break the Ice
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