Pics from the plane

As I have quite a few images in my blogs, and as I use thumbnails to reduce bandwidth requirements I usually use Ecto's built in functionality to let a user click on the thumbnail to bring up a page with a higher-resolution version of the image. But there are a number of javascript tools out there to do this in a much fancier/nicer way. FancyZoom is one of them :

Smooth Javascript Image Zooming For Your Web Pages

This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!

overlay.tv have a quite unobtrusive way of placing advertising on live video - I can see this being used.

I am in the process of buying a Arduino microcontroller kit - and while looking around for projects to get me started I came across this wonderful page with easy starter projects:

We'll start our tutorial with three simple light circuits. In the first one, the LED is permanently on. In the second, the LED only lights up when a button is pressed and a circuit is completed. In the third example, we'll replace the manual switch with an Arduino pin (set to output mode), so we can control the LED from our program. Here are three simple circuits to build on your breadboard:

[From protolab wiki / TutorialButtonsAndLeds]

I did not manage to get the Magnifier module for Drupal to work "out of the box", but this blog posting put me on to some fixes for the javascript library - and this works.

Update: The jquery magnifier wasn't working well for a lot of people, so I redid the javascript. Credit now goes to Mihai Parparita for writing this magnifying script. Be my QA and let me know how it works on your browser.

[From Me, Master Han, and the Pizza Boy | Jody Hamilton]