Final Week Or So....Finishing Touches

Over the final week or so Kaity and I took care of the aesthetics and fine details of our projects. I tweaked some programming and construction while Kaity created Fluffy the three-headed dog. I printed and meticulously cut out the house banners of each of the four Hogwarts houses as well as the Hogwarts Banner to put up in the great hall.

Hogwarts Banner

Hufflepuff and Slytherin House Banners

Gryffindor and Ravenclaw House Banners

We also fashioned out own Harry Potter LEGO minifigures by giving the original LEGO minifigures stylish capes and wands. The Voldemort minifigure also has a white face (fashioned with white electrical tape), with a truly evil look drawn in. The two figures truly look as if they are about to engage in battle!

Next I worked on creating the sensors for fluffy's room. These elaborate sensors require a number of creative looking devices. We need a harp with some sort of metal strings, a wand with some sort of metal tip (so that touching the tip of the wand to the correct harp string would complete the circuit required to make the program you saw earlier function properly. It also requires a sensor similar to that of the room of requirements that will be disguised as a carpet (covered from the bottom in foil which is attached to an alligator clip and another piece of foil attached to an alligator clip on the floor of the LEGO castle; a piece of paper folded like a zig-zag serves as the spring one will compress to press button trap that completes the circuit).

Sensor for the Room of Requirements
and my rug!! =]

Fluffy the Three Headed Dog

The Basilisk is in the process of being scaled thus pictures of him are, at the moment, nonexistent.

Pending tasks: The good news is that I have arranged for small speakers, I have small laptop speakers that can be suspended outside the room. However, we have a great task pending that is fluffy's room. Though I am making the sensors and such for the room, I have tested out several of them, and they don't seem to be working. I have created and repeatedly recreated each of the sensors and I am at a loss for why they aren't working. I have tried to trouble shoot potential problems in multiple ways, but I still can't seem to figure out what the problem is!! The exhibition is in two days and I don't know what to do!!