The class before thanksgiving, I had to leave a bit earlier because of my travel plans. However, the amount of work I did on the project outside of class last weekend had more than made up for this fact. Kaity was very happy to see what I had accomplished, and we spent quite a while playing around with and marveling at the door. In class on Tuesday, we finally decided what to do with the Room we had been previously calling The Defense Against the Dark Arts Classroom or Umbridge's Office. We decided that both of those two ideas would no longer work with what our project had now become, so we decided to transform this room into "The Gryffindor Common Room," alluding specifically to the fourth book/movie in which Harry would sometimes talk to his godfather using floo network through the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room. When using floo network, one pours floo powder into a fireplace in order to contact whomever they wish to contact. When talking to the person, the flame turns green (because of the floo powder). We decided to incorporate this idea into our Hogwarts castle by creating a simple program that would change the color of a light from red to green every time someone would talk into it. This was simple and fun to play with once it was done.
Unfortunately however, I forgot to take pictures of the fireplace and the code for it. =[
Now all that is left for us to do is to put together the sensors for fluffy's room and take care of aesthetics (including somehow making a three-headed dog, somehow putting scales on our LEGO basilisk). I also need to find some kind of small speaker to use in fluffy's room because we will be using imported mp3 files in scratch, so we need to find a speaker that is small enough to be conspicuous and make it seem as though the sound is coming from inside the room.
All in all we seem to be making great progress. The castle is almost complete, and it is looking great, I am really excited for its results!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
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