Karishma's Blog: And The Winner Is............HOGWARTS!!!

So in the end, Kaity and I decided to work together after all to build Hogwarts in a tribute to the epic book and movie series that ruled our childhood. We are also paying tribute to what marks the end of this beautiful journey of Harry Potter: part one of the last installment in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We began working on the chamber of secrets because we already knew exactly what we wanted to do for this room, and conveniently, this is the lowest room in the castle. For this project, Kaity and I agreed that since I really like programming whereas she doesn't enjoy it as much, and since Kaity really enjoys the LEGO aspect of the project, I am going to be doing all the programming for this while she builds most of the castle. I will also be helping her with the building at times.
As Kaity began building the room, I was creating the motion module that would become our Basilisk, for those of you that are not huge Harry Potter fans, and may not know what I am talking about, the Basilisk is a snake-like monster that Harry had to battle in the second book/movie of the series. The basilisk resides in the chamber of secrets, an underground dungeon. When Harry battles the Basilisk, he defeats it by stabbing the Basilisk through its mouth. The Basilisk should look something like this:

To create the Basilisk, I created a "Reach" motion module using the instructions, this motion module was programmed to move back and forth and stop when a button was pressed. Kaity and I plan to put this button inside the mouth of the Basilisk to reference the story. Here is the code for the Basilisk:

When I finished with the basilisk, I helped Kaity with the building portion, by reinforcing all the walls so that our walls don't break down. Here are pictures of The Chamber of Secrets =]

The Chamber of Secrets