#kano computer

De code hebben we nagemaakt van het origineel. Het uithollen van een pompoen was wat te veel werk, dus dat hebben we anders opgelost. Eerst hebben we een leeg melkpak opengesneden en daar de pixel kit in gedaan. Om te zorgen dat de pixel kit niet leeg zou zijn tijdens de Halloween optocht hebben we een WakaWaka toegevoegd als extra batterij. Het resultaat lampjes die aangaan als je schreeuwt.

Met behulp van oud t-shirt, een schaar, een pruik en een bezemsteeld wordt het al beter:

Het tussenresultaat is natuurlijk niet gereed zonder schreeuwtest. Gaan de lampjes ook echt aan:

Zie hieronder het eindresultaat, inclusief trotse dochter:

Het eindresultaat is natuurlijk niet compleet zonder het te kunnen beluisteren:

Een geslaagd resultaat al zag de tuin er ‘s avonds in het donker toch een stuk mooier uit:

Did you know that, for every person on Earth, one square foot of LCD panel is milled and sold every year?

But what happens beneath the pixels? What if anyone, anywhere, could build their own affordable HD screen?

Computing should be as simple to create as it is to consume. Three years ago, this big dream started with a challenge from a small six-year-old, Micah – he asked us to create “a computer I can make myself, as simple and fun as LEGO, so no one teaches me.”

Today we complete the computer kit. Our worldwide tribe demanded a display. We had a choice: push them towards a pricy option – or work on a new piece of “anyone can make” magic, in time for the holidays.

We chose the latter, to demystify another layer of the tech we all take for granted. Today we’re shipping our build-your-own HD Screen Kit, for $129 / £109 / €129 through the holidays. 

You can get yours here. It’s the most affordable, portable, creative HD display in the world – and you build it yourself.

(Help us get the word out.)

Guided by a storybook, anyone, as young as six, can connect a driver board, LCD panel, programmable buttons, a base and stand, plug-and-play cables, stickers, velcro, and custom cards together – learning as you go. Read the book here.

Out pops a magnifying glass to look closely at each part and pixel. The build-your-own buttons let you to tweak alpha, gamma, and more, and learn what billions of liquid crystals can really do. To make it yours, we added stickers to peel and place on and around your Screen.

At the end, you’ve got a portable, playful display – your Kano Kit and Keyboard clip in the back, with room for spare cables or a battery pack. The 10.1” Gorilla Glass precision-moulded piece is the world’s most affordable all-in-one screen – it plugs into any HDMI-device, so it’s perfect for makers, photographers, artists, and creators of all stripes. Oh, and it’s viewable from two angles, or on your lap.

And soon, we’ll unveil an incredible offer around the Kano Complete, just for our first 100 buyers on Black Friday. More details on the door buster soon.

The Screen Kit isn’t all we’ve been up to this year. Our new Powerup Kit lets you transform any Raspberry Pi 1 into a lightshow, and comes with a 6x faster Raspberry Pi 2, and a special Make Light creative coding app. It’s $89 / £69, and lets you make arcade games, alarm clocks, status lights, and more.

We’ve also souped up the Kano Kit. You’ll get an open, playful computer kit that teaches you as you go – along with hundreds more creative coding challenges. We’ve powered up our PC with a programmable orb of dazzling LEDs. You can link them to music and data, following simple, storybook steps.

You’ve helped us get so far, in less time than it takes to grow a poplar. You helped our first computer and coding kit explode on Kickstarter, and made it one of the most crowdfunded learning inventions ever – with the mojo of Steve Wozniak, Yancey Strickler, and backers in 86 countries. A year later, over 50,000 have built their first computer, and coded artworks, games, songs, servers, radios, and more. In our online World, kids of all ages have shared over 9 million lines of creative code, a carnival of the computer arts.

Once again, for the Screen Kit, we teamed up on our industrial design with MAP, an incredible and noble crew of makers and artists who we’ve partnered with since the beginning. Here’s a taste of the iteration...

Kano turns learning to code into a game with drag and drop physical pieces and digital blocks, that let you remix real devices, apps and games you love – like Minecraft, Whatsapp, Pong, and more. We’re growing into a complete creative computing system. Kids in Sierra Leone have built radio stations with Kano, in Oklahoma, time-lapse cameras, in Kosovo, solar arrays, and around the world, playful open-source consoles that let you look inside a computer’s brain – rather than just use it.

We’re awed by these creator stories, and now with the release of Screen Kit, we look forward to more mainstream making as our community grows. Thanks for being with us. 

GET A KANO KIT: kano.me

GET A SCREEN KIT or a DISCOUNT BUNDLE: kano.me/screen

FUN FACT: Did you know that, before screens, computers talked to each other with punchcards – and now, they do it by sending millions of numbers, sixty times a second, down a special coiled cable?

WATCH THIS: How to make a computer

MORE ASSETS AND STORIES: Kano press pack

WHAT’S INSIDE – SCREEN KIT

10.1” LCD screen, 1280 x 800, 720p (scales to 1080p), 150 PP, $129 through the holidays

The Screen Book, a story with simple steps so anyone can build and understand their own powerful display

Easy-snap base plates

Magnifying glass

Driver board

Button board

Wafer cable

HDMI Cable

Mini-USB Y-splitter cable (power)

Works with the Kano Kit or any HDMI-compatible device

WHAT’S INSIDE – KANO COMPUTER KIT

A computer and coding kit for all ages, powered by Raspberry Pi 2, -          

Two illustrated storybooks: “Make a computer” and “Code powers”

Raspberry Pi 2

Build-your-own speaker, case-mounted and powered by GPIO

Flat cables, colour coded for easy use

Stickers

Customizable case slide cards for top and bottom of case

Modular side slotting case with clamshell clip

Nano Wi-Fi dongle with seamless auto-configuration

8GB SDHC Class 10 memory card with Kano OS

New wireless keyboard with multi-touch trackpad

Billed as "the computer anyone battlewagon go-ahead," the US$99 Kano kit supplies a Raspberry Feet multiplier board with the various accouterments (treasure up for a display) required to make it into a complete computer. The Kano programming language uses graphic code blocks to implement a verbatim entirely powerful language retrospective of PURE. <\p>

Influence people have mature a certain facility at operating pre-packaged smartphones and computer programs designed to delight, but haven't the slightest idea what the hardware and software are in reality doing. This is the problem that Kano is designed to address. <\p>

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What Kano does equip is a simple-to-use tool to come to know the basics about programming a decoder over against explicate problems. These would lay together breaking a bugbear peneplain into a logical sequence of operations, converting that sequence into algol in a computer polabian, and verifying the operation of the resulting program. <\p>

The Kano programming language, which sits upon a foundation including Python and Linux, allows a newbie in passage to learn the intellectual principles of programming to all appearances having to provoke with the complexities in respect to coding for a particular machine, or within a complex structuring. <\p>

The code blocks, which implement various commands, programming structures, and interface functions, are completely transparent. Programming the Kano is accomplished by arranging appropriate code block graphics wherewith a graphics screen in interlocking structures. <\p>

As an educational tool, the Kano is directed at the logical and graphemic aspects of programming; nothing in contemplation of speak of is learned about hardware at this level. Remember, however, that underneath the Kano programming is a thoughtfully capable Linux machine, which provides an excellent platform accompanying which afterwards to learn anyhow memory structures, registers, I\O interfaces, and the like, which make up the better level structures of the electronic meandering. <\p>

The delightful thing throughout the Kano system is that the persian is so creamy, and properly easy to barter, that a user can enter the arrange and change parameters and logic just to see what happens. This kin of recreation usually carries with it the deepest and most lasting learning. <\p>

A Kickstarter grass-roots campaign in order to bring Kano to market has resulted in the project netting pledges for over six times its $100,000 windup in the first five days online. Pledges for the Kano computer think fit be accepted until December 19, with delivery expected sympathy the (Northern Hemisphere) summer as to 2014. <\p>

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When making, creating and playing with Kano becomes a family affair, the whole atmosphere in the office goes up to a different level. If we could describe the feeling, it would involve unicorns getting painted by rainbows, while all the stars align and every single shade of orange in the world turns into the TRUE Kano orange (alas!).

Dad-daughter time

Carlo first got in touch with us when he and his daughters, Emilia and Viktoria, made a stop motion video of a flower blooming with a camera and a Kano. Watch the beautiful process for yourself!

That’s not where their story ends, though. Carlo sent us a note with the family’s favorite techie and makey activities, so read on!