Robot Unicorn, python and a microbit

Yesterday (21/12/2017) I took delivery of a Robot Unicorn kit - now those were three words I don't think I would ever write let alone say from Do it Kits https://doitkits.com/product/robot-unicorn/ based around the microbit.

There is a fantastic video produced by Do It Kits on how to put the kit together and another on programming using Blocks:



Using the second video as a starting point I have produced my version of it in Python (see below). Essentially go forward, backwards, turn left and turn right, as well as pause.

I have probably wired it up back to front, so my settings in the code are the other way around to the ones used in the video - you may need to swap backwards and forwards around; as well as left and right.

	from microbit import *
	pin0.set_analog_period(20)
	pin0.set_analog_period(20)
	def backward(N):
	pin0.write_analog(10)
	pin1.write_analog(100)
	sleep(N)
	def forward(N):
	pin0.write_analog(100)
	pin1.write_analog(10)
	sleep(N)
	def turnRight(N):
	pin0.write_analog(100)
	pin1.write_analog(100)
	sleep(N)
	def turnLeft(N):
	pin0.write_analog(10)
	pin1.write_analog(10)
	sleep(N)
	def stopIt(N):
	pin0.write_analog(0)
	pin1.write_analog(0)
	sleep(N)
	while True:
	forward(1500)
	backward(1500)
	turnLeft(1500)
	turnRight(1500)
	stopIt(1000)

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This is a cute kit. How can anyone resist a Robot Unicorn?

All of the code available at Turner, S., 2017. Robo_unicorn_python. Available at: <Robo_unicorn_python> https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5729583.v7

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