ExampleThumbnail.tsx only serves /examples-thumbs/<id>.webp; the .png
copies were sharp's intermediate format committed by mistake on
2026-05-19 (commit 8693f93) when scripts/refresh-example-thumbs.sh
copied both formats to public. Removing ~18 MB of unreferenced PNGs
keeps the public folder lean. WebP is supported by ~97% of browsers
in use; the old Safari fallback path goes through CircuitPreview
(the SVG mock), not the .png.
Generated by velxio-prod's scripts/capture-example-thumbs.mjs after
fixing three bugs (CTA-based navigation against renamed route,
heterogeneous data-file parsing, false-positive prefix match). The
gallery now has a real canvas screenshot for every example
exampleProjects exports — 263 / 263. Previously 44 examples (mostly
digital-* and i8080-* / z80-*) had no preview and rendered the
SVG mock fallback.
Discovery regex was matching only single-quoted ID literals, so the
auto-generated examples-100-days.ts file (which uses double-quoted
strings, by convention of its Python emitter) was completely missed.
Same for picow-wifi: the script wasn't reading examples-picow-wifi.ts
at all.
Two-line fix in scripts/capture-example-thumbs.mjs: the regex now
accepts both `'…'` and `"…"`, and the data-file list includes
examples-picow-wifi.ts.
Captured slugs:
- 49 × `100d-*` (100 Days of IoT — MicroPython on ESP32 / Pico)
- 4 × `picow-*` (Pico W WiFi — async LED, relay web server,
servo web, websocket LED)
Coverage: 219/226 examples (97%). The 7 still falling back to
CircuitPreview are component-ID literals (`epaper-1in54-bw`,
`epaper-2in13-bw`, etc.) that the regex over-matches — they 404
on /examples/<slug> because they aren't real example IDs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ePaper examples in examples-displays-epaper.ts use slugs prefixed
`epaper-*` (e.g. `epaper-1in54-uno-hello`), but the previous discovery
regex was matching `epd-*` — those are ePaper-component IDs that
appear in wire definitions, NOT example IDs. So /examples/epd-154
returns 404 ("Example Not Found") and the 7 actual ePaper examples
were never captured.
Fix: discovery regex now reads `epaper-` (the real prefix). Captured
all 7:
- epaper-1in54-uno-hello (Uno + 1.54" SSD1681)
- epaper-2in13-pico-clock (Pico + 2.13")
- epaper-2in9-esp32-weather (ESP32 + 2.9" weather panel)
- epaper-4in2-pico-image (Pico + 4.2" image)
- epaper-7in5-esp32-dashboard (ESP32 + 7.5" dashboard)
- epaper-2in9-bwr-esp32-alert (ESP32 + 2.9" black-white-red)
- epaper-5in65-7c-esp32-rainbow (ESP32 + 5.65" 7-color)
Coverage now: 166/166 examples (was 159/166).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The analog-only circuits in examples-analog.ts (slugs prefixed `an-*`)
have no SEO route — they aren't in sitemap.xml — and the capture
script previously discovered slugs from sitemap only, so all 30
fell through to the CircuitPreview SVG mock which doesn't draw the
wires for these layouts.
Updated discovery: also grep the local velxio submodule's
examples-analog.ts for `an-*` ID literals (and `100d-*` / `epd-*`
while we're at it for the 100-days and epaper data files), in
addition to the sitemap pull.
Updated wait condition: capture now waits for any board OR component
OR wire path inside .canvas-world, not specifically [data-board-id]
(analog-only examples have no Arduino, just a signal-generator + parts).
Coverage: 159/166 examples have real screenshots now (was 129/166).
The 7 `epd-*` epaper examples are still falling back to CircuitPreview
because they don't render an "Open in Simulator" CTA on /examples/<slug>;
they'll need a separate loader path.
Re-captured the 109 existing thumbs at the same time — content is
visually identical for those, no regression.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PNG fallbacks were carrying 80% of the gallery's bundled weight
(16 MB of 20 MB) and serving virtually no traffic — WebP is supported
on ~97% of in-use browsers, and the few hold-outs (very old Safari)
fall through to the CircuitPreview SVG mock via the existing onError
handler. No visual regression for modern browsers.
Numbers:
- before: 258 files, ~20 MB total
- after: 129 files, ~3.6 MB total (avg 28.6 KB / WebP)
ExampleThumbnail simplified: drops the <picture>/<source> wrap around
the WebP <source> + PNG fallback, just renders the WebP <img> directly
with onError → CircuitPreview.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the slugs that hadn't been captured in the first batch (some
extra coverage from a later examples-* file, plus 10 retries that
hit a transient waitForLoadState timeout on the first sweep).
Coverage is now 129/129 — every example exposed via sitemap.xml has
a real canvas screenshot. The few that still 404 (slugs only present
in non-sitemap data files) keep the CircuitPreview fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the manually-positioned wokwi-element mock (CircuitPreview) in
the /examples gallery with real screenshots of the actual simulator
canvas, so each card shows the example's boards + components + wires
exactly as they appear when you open the example.
How it works
- A new <ExampleThumbnail> component tries
/examples-thumbs/<id>.{webp,png} first. If the image 404s — or no
thumbnail has been captured yet — it falls back to the existing
CircuitPreview component. No-op for examples without a screenshot.
- ExamplesGallery and ExampleDetailPage now render <ExampleThumbnail>
instead of CircuitPreview directly.
- Explicit example.thumbnail field still wins (kept the existing
override path in case someone wants a custom asset).
Capture pipeline
- Generated by velxio-prod's scripts/capture-example-thumbs.mjs
(Playwright + sharp). For each example: opens /examples/<slug>,
clicks "Open in Simulator", waits for [data-board-id] elements,
computes the bbox of all boards + components, sets a transform on
.canvas-world to center and fit them with 12% padding inside the
canvas viewport, screenshots .canvas-content, and re-encodes to
600x360 @2x DPI as .png + .webp.
This commit ships the first batch (102 of ~129 examples — the rest
will follow once the capture completes; missing slugs gracefully
fall back to CircuitPreview in the meantime).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
velxio-deploy