Peter Yorke » Technology

Turn your Head MRI into a skull for Halloween

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:05:18 +0000

Spent some time with Matt Westervelt, of Seattle Wireless fame, at his new business venture called Metrix Create:Space on Capital Hill in Seattle

It’s a hard business model to describe, but here goes:

If you are a Generation X’er its like Craftmart for Generation Y

If you are a Baby Boomer it’s like going to the guy with all the tools, parts, and resources to work on your car or home

Put another way, it’s a place to drop in with your “Do it yourself” project for 21st century technologies and art.

Now to the MRI part, Matt has a MakerBot CupCake set up so you can drop in with your design and make a small prototype. So like most folks in Seattle, someone took a moment to turn the DVD of his head MRI and turn it into a file for the Makerbot.

And Viola, tiny skull from the MRI of your head!

I figure, in the not to distant future, you will be able to drop in to Matt’s place to build your designer molecule or virus for life extension or cognitive brain upgrades. You should be able to hack yourself, right?

PHPMotion

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:44:23 +0000

Was playing with PHPMotion today.

They have a great out of the box experience for creating a video and image gallery.

They claim to be a YouTube clone that can be customized via templates.

Set was a bit of a beast because it uses phpSHIELD a PHP encoder. After a few hours of googoling and debugging, I got is up and running.

Take it out for a test drive.

Some Apache configuration problems after a package update

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:49:54 +0000

While updating packages yesterday, I broke the Apache server for sites http://peteryorke.net and http://evohdtv.com

Not sure what happened, but it’s working now. You have to really love technology.