About Ohbot

Ohbot is a seven-motor programmable robot head.   

Connected to a computer Ohbot can be programmed to sense, 'think' and act. What it does, how it behaves is completely up to you. There are several ways Ohbot can be programmed.  

Ohbot can be programmed using the Ohbot App, Scratch for Ohbot or Python.

Instructions for setting these up are here. When you've done that, select the tool below to start learning to program.

Ohbot App

Ohbot App Introduction

Programming Tutorials

Puzzles

About the puzzles

A small collection of computing puzzles designed to help you get started with programming Picoh or Ohbot. They are intended to be fun, but also help develop computational thinking skills and an understanding of key programming concepts. Click to open the puzzle within the app or use Open Ohbiverse Download from the File menu.

Projects

About the projects

Ohbot Scheme of Work

About

This course provides a sequence of inspiring activities that can be used to help children develop the skills needed to find computational solutions to messy real world problems. As they work through creating computer programs for human like behaviour such as smiling, blinking or telling a story they are able to adopt and develop core competencies associated with computer programming including the understanding and use of logical reasoning, the adoption of an iterative approach and the need for perseverance. They are also introduced to core programming concepts including sequencing instructions, repetition, conditionals and variables.
 
The course consists of 4 sequences of 6 lessons that may be used flexibly for example taught as a single block or split up and taught over a term a year over four years. Each lesson takes around an hour and is devised to be delivered by a teacher working with a class of children. 

​You will need

• ​One assembled Ohbot
• A site licence for the Ohbot graphical programming application (if using the software on more than 4 computers)
• Windows 7, 8 or 10 computers with the Ohbot graphical programming application installed 
• Headphones or speakers for the computers​

Stage 1 (Year 3/Grade 2)

Lesson 1 Shaky Sequences
I can program a robot to carry out a sequence of movements
lesson plan | display slides

​​Lesson 2 Key Moves
I can program a robot to move when keys are pressed
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 3 Over and over again
I can refine a program by using a repeat instruction
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 4 Robot Multitasking
I can program a robot to carry out two sequences of movements at once
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 5 Hello Human
I can program a robot to speak
lesson plan | display slides
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Lesson 6 Debugging
I can test and debug a program
lesson plan | display slides

Stage 2 (Year 4/Grade 3) 

Lesson 1 Blinks Like Me
I can program a robot to repeat movements with a random wait between
lesson plan | ​Display slides

Lesson 2 Scaredy Eyes
I can program a robot to move continuously to random positions
​Lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 3 Variable Counting
I can use a variable to make Ohbot count
​Lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 4 Repeat Until
I can make a robot count until it reaches a certain value
​Lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 5 Two Variables
I can use more than one variable in the same program
​Lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 6 Debugging
I can test and debug my programs
​Lesson plan | display slides

Stage 3 (Year 5/Grade 4)

Lesson 1 Time
I can program a robot to say the date and time
lesson plan | display slides

​​Lesson 2 If-then
I can use an If-then instruction in my program
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 3 If-then-Else
I can use an If-then-else instruction in my program
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 4 Broadcasting
I can send a message from one instruction block to another
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 5 Broadcasting More
I can use broadcast in my program to make Ohbot do several things at the same time
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 6 Debugging
I can test and debug a program
lesson plan | display slides

Stage 4 (Year 6/Grade 5)

Lesson 1 Oh Puppet
I can program a robot to sense the position of a mouse to set its position
lesson plan | display slides

​​Lesson 2 Oh Poet
I can use a list in a program
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 3 I'm Sleepy
I can write a program that uses a variable to make Ohbot appear sleepy
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 4 Oh Pet
I can use several variables to make Ohbot behave like a robot pet
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 5 Welcome to our school
I can program Ohbot to fulfil a real world job
lesson plan | display slides

Lesson 6 Debugging
I can test and debug a program
lesson plan | display slides

Code Snippets

Shared Programs

Block Glossary

Scratch for Ohbot

Python for Ohbot