Crumble – how to simulate a flood barrier

What a wonderful request from Mandy Nash – how could you combine a study on rivers with some physical computing, and build a Crumble flood gate system?

Well first of all, we need to know how actual flood gates work! Welcome Professor Ivan Haigh who specialises in coastal flooding at Southampton University. Here is my solution, following his advice…

Did you spot the Back to the Future quote?!?

And here is the screen shot of the code I used, using the switch to manually control the flood gate:

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