picoh -cute and fun OhBot

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 played with the example programs so far.

Thoughts 
A cool little robot, nice that it can be used on Windows, Mac, Linux/Pi. In the Picho-Python github site, there are some interesting examples, including one that links, Picoh, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia - curious about that one.



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