Kano Returns to Kickstarter With Three News Kits and a Coding Tool

Three years ago, Kano launched the first computer that anyone could build. The DIY device went on to garner more than $1.5 million from 13,300-plus backers. Today, the team has returned to Kickstarter with three new kits and a way to code them.

Introducing the Camera Kit, Pixel Kit, and Speaker Kit, as well as Kano Code — the online tool to configure them from any browser.

The new kits include:

• The Camera Kit — a five mega-pixel codeable camera with a tripwire Sensor to design flashes and filters, and use data triggers to make images, videos and GIFs.
• The Pixel Kit — a light board with 128 dazzling pixels and a tilt sensor to build games, visualize real world data sourced from the cloud, and create artwork in 1.7 million colors.
• The Speaker Kit — a programmable smart speaker with a gesture sensor to record, control, and synthesize your own sounds and electronic music.

Each kit runs:

• Kano Code — a new coding tool that lets everyone, from beginners to advanced users, create sophisticated interactive apps to power the new kits — with dragged blocks, and typed text — as well as digital creations, like songs, artworks, Minecraft, and games.
• Kano World — an online community platform where more than 19 million lines of code have been shared, and creations are converted into simple steps for others to follow.

The three new kits are powered by a new kind of single-board computer, the “Kano Brain,” which connects to other devices over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. These are standalone devices, programmable by connecting them to any PC with a screen, including Kano’s Computer Kit and Screen Kit. In each new kit comes a Kano Sensor, which works with existing USB compatible hardware such as laptops and desktop computers.

Interested? Head over to its crowdfunding page, where can read all about the kit and back one (or all) of them for yourself!