{"id":19321,"date":"2019-01-22T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2019-01-22T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:13:01","slug":"new-robot-from-the-ohbot-crew-has-a-raspberry-pi-python-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19321","title":{"rendered":"New robot from the OhBot crew has a Raspberry Pi Python library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picohbot.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picohbot.gif?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hi everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You might have noticed a shortage of posts recently, and for this I apologise. I&#8217;ve been through a pretty rough time of late with mental health issues and between work, Sharnbrook Mill Theatre and <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Wars<\/a>, I&#8217;ve over-stretched myself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, however, I just wanted to point you at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ohbot2\/picoh-an-expressive-little-robot-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Kickstarter for the <em><strong>Picoh<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (pictured above)<em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> from the people who brought you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohbot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OhBot<\/a>\u00a0(pictured at the bottom of this post).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ohbot2\/picoh-an-expressive-little-robot-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0is live now and features a lovely little robot that is controllable in a variety of different ways, including a Python library, usable on the Raspberry Pi as well as a Windows application that looks and feels a lot like Scratch and an in-browser plugin for Scratch 3.<\/p>\n<p>Super Earlybird pledges start at \u00a377 for the Picoh before rising to \u00a388 and then to \u00a399.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ohbot2\/picoh-an-expressive-little-robot-head\/widget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view the campaign here<\/a> and view the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ohbot2\/picoh-an-expressive-little-robot-head\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?resize=558%2C558&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?w=558&amp;ssl=1 558w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?resize=260%2C260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ohbot.jpg?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone. You might have noticed a shortage of posts recently, and for this I apologise. I&#8217;ve been through a pretty rough time of late with mental health issues and between work, Sharnbrook Mill Theatre and Pi Wars, I&#8217;ve over-stretched&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19321\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,13,45],"tags":[850,851,200],"class_list":["post-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-crowdfunding","category-robotics","tag-ohbot","tag-picoh","tag-robot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New robot from the OhBot crew has a Raspberry Pi Python library - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19321\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New robot from the OhBot crew has a Raspberry Pi Python library - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi everyone. 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