Robots and Physical Computing

The OhBot company has recently released a slightly different version to their OhBot - Picoh ( https://www.ohbot.co.uk/picoh.html ); a cute small robot head. This is a just a short post about some initial playing with the Picoh OhBot. Windows I started playing the windows based blocks (see below) programming used for programming the ohbot. Very scratch-like language but packed with lots of features. The program that loads automatically takes you through loads of the features . Python I wanted to know if I can use it with a Mac as well. The blocks are not available for a Mac but a Python-based approach is ( https://www.ohbot.co.uk/picoh-for-python.html ) . Set-up instructions are good, starting from the GitHub site  https://github.com/ohbot/picoh-python , the README file is useful including links to setting up for a Mac and links to example programs. Thonny is my prefered IDE for running Python in this case - just for the ease of use really. Mainly I have pla...

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