Phosphatase treatment is now being combined with the restriction digest activity so I moved some of the script that was within the recipient tube for restriction digest, into the phosphatase treatment script and had to add new sections to the recipient tube so that the product you receive has to be taken to phosphatase treatment manually, before an avatar may receive the proper product to begin construction. This required the new method of searching for inventory, which is much more effective.
I completed instructions for the bacterial transformation activity and it was discovered that some of the items our avatars were using for PCR were named incorrectly, which was causing some major issues with testing out the equipment so those items have been renamed and the machine is in the process of being test once again.
I was also able to test the DNA extraction activity and it functions correctly as long as you follow the instructions provided throughout the activity. To improve upon it, we will have to get the objects to communicate with each other, which I have now started and the constant messaging would have to be reset for all steps within the product tube.
Since I find that the restriction digest is not unique compared to the other activity, tomorrow I believe that instead of moving the tube form water bath to heating block automatically, I will:
- Add to the listen event in restriction digest so that it may wait for prompts from the water bath and the heating block
- When the avatar is asked what the tube needs to be sent to they may touch the equipment and it will send a message of conformation to the tube, which was inspired by the touch capabilities of the DNA extraction activity have lead me to consider
- It will move to the equipment that was touched only if it was the correct place for the tube to be sent
- The listen will have to be removed after to prevent tube from being sent to equipment that is touched at random out of curiosity
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