Noon Stick: find your latitude with a stick, a shadow and a browser

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Noon Stick</strong> sends you outside with a stick and a tape measure to find out where on the planet you are standing.</p> <p>Plant a straight stick in flat ground near solar noon and measure its shadow every few minutes. The shortest shadow is the moment the sun is highest. Its length compared with the stick's height gives the sun's angle, and with the date that gives your latitude, us

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Noon Stick</strong> sends you outside with a stick and a tape measure to find out where on the planet you are standing.</p> <p>Plant a straight stick in flat ground near solar noon and measure its shadow every few minutes. The shortest shadow is the moment the sun is highest. Its length compared with the stick's height gives the sun's angle, and with the date that gives your latitude, us

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Noon Stick</strong> sends you outside with a stick and a tape measure to find out where on the planet you are standing.</p> <p>Plant a straight stick in flat ground near solar noon and measure its shadow every few minutes. The shortest shadow is the moment the sun is highest. Its length compared with the stick's height gives the sun's angle, and with the date that gives your latitude, us

Evidence

Noon Stick: find your latitude with a stick, a shadow and a browser

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