Day 23 and 24: Bringing it all together

The program in Scratch, to emulate the actual Pokemon game (complete with HP!) has an image that looks like the Gen II games.

This is the frame of Electrode! Wrapping it in tissue paper is still what we're planning on...

The red wires are the lights! I soldered four red light emitting diodes together, so we don't have to have individual lights on single picocricket wires. Now one picocricket socket lights up four lights!

Similarly, there are another set of four lights soldered together along the arena. Those are yellow.

Instead of our original idea of hanging the arena, we're now going to balance it on some boxes, and have this mechanism to bounce the arena up and down. As per Prof Berg's suggestions, I added another layer of legos on top so that the bouncing motion is more up and down.

                                       
Charizard has been assembled! This is the interior of its mouth, with the flame moving back and forth.

A couple views of the inside of its body. This is the arm moving mechanism.... It finally works! The original rubber band (to pull the arm towards the center of its body when the cam wasn't pushing it up) was too weak, and the other rubber band was too strong, so we used two rubber bands instead! Now it finally works, though opening the body tends to derange  the mechanism. Yes, it is duct taped to the side of the body >>

                                            

This mechanism pulls up the Electrode! A rather simple idea, and it worked on the first try! Yay.

Notice the beam holding the mechanism up. It's a bunch of legos pegged together, and used to be the frame of Electrode. It was reused! The beam is held up by a ring stand, so we don't have to worry about it falling over... Though the weight of Electrode makes the beam bend a little.

                                         
A final view of the water pouring device. It pours water fine!

Several other issues without pictures:
I soldered some pennies onto the wires for the control box. Now, instead of touching the pointer to a wire, you touch the penny instead. It didn't change any of the resistance values

Charizard's arm was too large for the mechanism to move, so we downsized. Instead of the laser cut piece being the center of the arm and then being held onto a lego piece via a screw and nuts, we used only lego pieces as its center.