Day 11|12: OH MY GOSH CHECK OUT THAT .DEB

or "now there is no reason not to make the switch!'"
or also "FIGHT GOBO FIGHT"

SO.
Working in Scratch now:
Scratch is a programming language/environment that is pretty much picoBlocks but mostly virtual.
You can check it out here:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
and download it for yourself here:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download

most of the coding is for events that happen on screen,
and code is associated with a sprite inside the program-

RUN GOBO RUN

But what we are really doing in Scratch is working with sensors.

DIY sensors.

pretty much anything can become a sensor if you get it wet then hook it up to a resistance sensor

so we rigged a sensor out of wet felt:

high tech electronics sitting in puddles of water

It turns out that as you move the alligator clips further from each other on the felt the resistance increases roughly linearly.

so we rigged a code out of code that translates resistance to notes on a piano-

actually, this is really annoying to people around you!

BUT THAT IS NOT ALL-

another day of fooling around gave us-

FIGHT GOBO FIGHT 

TOTALLY AWESOME T-REX SPRITE

(my magnum opus, i think)

AND ALSO-

the first rule of fight club is ' if(!resistanceB=100)'

code that not only makes annoying piano noises but also makes the sprites shove each other based on x position.
AND GREAT FUN WAS HAD BY ALL