Lawn tractors are a great way to mow a large yard or small paddock. They save you the effort of pushing a mower around and they’re fun to drive, to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/building-a-hydraulic-loader-for-a-lawn-tractor/)

Celebrating Pi Day with a Ghostly Calculator
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/celebrating-pi-day-with-a-ghostly-calculator/

For the last few years, [Cristiano Monteiro] has marked March 14th by building a device to calculate Pi. This year, he’s combined an RP2040 development board and a beam-splitting prism …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/celebrating-pi-day-with-a-ghostly-calculator/)

Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/making-floating-point-calculations-less-cursed-when-accuracy-matters/

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/making-floating-point-calculations-less-cursed-when-accuracy-matters/)

Bonkers Nerf Blaster Sprays Balls Everywhere
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/bonkers-nerf-blaster-sprays-balls-everywhere/

Nerf blasters are fun toys, to be sure. However, they’re limited by factors like price and safety and what Hasbro thinks parents will put up with. Few caregivers would ever …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/14/bonkers-nerf-blaster-sprays-balls-everywhere/)

A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/a-look-inside-a-70-ghz-electromechanical-attenuator/

It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that covers up to 70 GHz is pretty close, and getting a guided tour of its insides is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/a-look-inside-a-70-ghz-electromechanical-attenuator/)

CATS: A New Communication and Telemetry System
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/cats-a-new-communication-and-telemetry-system/

https://cats.radio/pages/mobile-transceiver.html
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CATS-txer-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CATS-txer-featured.png?w=800">CATS is a new communication and telemetry standard intended to surpass the current Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) standard by leveraging modern, super-cheap Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) transceivers rather than …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/cats-a-new-communication-and-telemetry-system/)

This Week in Security: Apple Backdoors Curl, Tor’s New Bridge, and GhostRace
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/this-week-in-security-apple-backdoors-curl-tors-new-bridge-and-ghostrace/

OK, that headline is a bit of a cheap shot. But if you run the curl binary that Apple ships, you’re in for a surprise if you happen to use …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/this-week-in-security-apple-backdoors-curl-tors-new-bridge-and-ghostrace/)

The Perils of Return Path Gaps
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/the-perils-of-return-path-gaps/