London-based Kano has a different code equipment within the works to add to its STEM targeting gamified tutorial line of build-it-your self children’ products forward of the current-purchasing break season.
The package is being priced at $ 249.ninety nine/£229.99, and is up for pre-order from these days — through the Kano site and by means of “opt for agents and e-tailers” — with delivery because of birth on November 1.
The desktop kit finished takes the next glaring step of mixing two prior Kano products: its common (screenless) Kano desktop kit and the enlargement reveal equipment that followed, in a new all-in-one computing device package Kano it’s billing as a “laptop”.
“First, you bring together your own desktop with a step-by-step storybook, getting to know how batteries, sensors, speakers, and USB boards work. then you start making artwork, games and apps in actual programming languages like Javascript and Python, leveling up slowly from blocks to typed textual content,” it writes of the new product.
As with its prior Kano kits, the new computer kit runs its Kano OS — which it describes as a “family friendly educational operating device”, noting that it comprises parental controls and a content material-blocker to filter what kids can see once they’re the usage of the equipment to browse the cyber web.
though it also claims the package computer “works as a powerful DIY computing device too”, flagging the presence of apps like YouTube, WhatsApp, Google Maps and Wikipedia, as well as its own range of “creative computing applications”, which are aimed at encouraging children to learn coding ideas and even write traces of code whereas they play round with digital content material. Its apps consist of Hack Minecraft, Make art, Terminal Quest and Story Mode.
ahead of the break season closing 12 months Kano outed a collection of related equipment kits — such as a programmable LED array and a gesture controller. however this year it appears to be doubling lower back down on its core computer equipment theory. Kano’s co-founder Alex Klein confirms that while the screen equipment is being kept across the new finished computing device equipment is the Kano product “we totally advocate”.
The startup, which become founded in 2013 and counts Saul Klein (formerly a companion at Index Ventures) as a co-founder and an investor in a personal capability, has raised round $ 15M in VC funding to date, plus additional funding by way of a crowdfunding route which became how it kickstarted the business.
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