Nifty new thing.

Just ran across this on adafruit.com:

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/09/12/new-product-magnetic-project-mat/

Looks to be a very useful thing.

WANT

http://www.electricimp.com/

nodejs, websockets, and controlling your railroad

We've been having great fun building a multi-client web-based control system for Silicon Valley Lines. Hacking with nodejs is quite fun, and is reminiscent of my days writing my first programs in BASIC. Using a dynamic language to build prototypes lets us move quickly to and stay focused on building a solution.  Still not sure I'd use this for my "real job", but it is fun to play with.

Getting Started in N Scale

A really neat snapshot of what is now possible to do in N Scale.

http://www.model160.com/n-scale-news-blog/getting-started-in-n-scale/