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+Silicon Valley dreamers have long envisioned a world where every child is holding a laptop. It sounds good on paper, but it's proved stubbornly difficult to manifest in the world. Not only do you need a computer cheap enough to sell to cash-strapped schools, you also need software to engage a notoriously distracted audience: kids. 
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+The education market is littered with smart toys, robots, apps, and other ploys to get children engaged in STEAM-related activities. Few though have had quite the success of Kano, makers of Raspberry Pi-based, DIY-friendly computers children can build.
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+Now, thanks in part to new partnership with Microsoft, Kano is releasing KanoPC, a cheap, powerful, repairable laptop aimed at the education market. The KanoPC retains the colorful, kid-friendly, some-assembly-required charm of its predecessors, but offers more power and access to Windows-only tools.
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+Kano co-founder and CEO Alex Klein tells WIRED that the move away from Raspberry Pi was a practical one. "Schools are already heavily invested in Windows," he say. "Kids want to play Fortnight. Teachers need Microsoft Office." Then there's the speed issue. The Raspberry Pi is cheap and adaptable, but it's rarely the most powerful chip in the room.
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+Often the websites and online tools kids and their teachers need in their everyday work require huge amounts of JavaScript that make them load very slowly on less powerful chips like what's in the Raspberry Pi. The difference between the load times on previous Kano machines and the new KanoPC is "like night and day," says Klein
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+It also doesn't hurt business to have Microsoft as an equity partner, which is part of the new deal with Kano. Microsoft, which has struggled of late against iPads and Chromebooks in the education market, gets a new way to get Windows into schools. 
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+Rather than turning its back on the Maker movement from which it sprang, Klein sees the KanoPC as "a fusion of the ethics of the Maker movement, with the reach and power of Microsoft."
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+When Kano launched back in 2013, we [called it](https://www.wired.com/2013/12/for-99-you-can-make-your-own-computer/) a “drool-worthy kit that lets kids build their own computers." It offered a keyboard, wiring, and Raspberry Pi board which kids could put together. The first release lacked even a screen. 
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+The next effort [added a screen](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/kano-the-coolest-diy-computer-kit-now-lets-you-build-it-a-screen/) and beefed up the learn-to-code software tools. Later three standalone kits, [a DIY camera, speaker, and pixel light board](https://www.wired.com/2016/09/kano-beautiful-diy-computer-just-got-three-new-kits/) were released, all built around Kano's core premise: that tactile, hands-on experiences should be the cornerstone of STEAM education. 
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+The new KanoPC also retains that approach. The laptops arrives in pieces kids put together. An included magnifying glass encourages children to inspect the circuit boards and wiring lurking under the clear plastic back. The kids get to plug in the speakers, battery, and keyboard as well.
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+Those parts aren't randomly chosen. They're educational sure, they help kids see how a computer works, but they also go a long way to making the KanoPC less likely to end up in a landfill.
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+Kano claims a third of schools throw out rather than repair their devices. Typically the broken parts are the battery, keyboard and speaker, all of which are easy to replace in the KanoPC. What's a learning experience for the kids becomes a sustainability experience for the schools.
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+demystifying
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+and a laptop for kids
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+Studio of apps: coding, design, 3D modeling, and more.
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+“The new Kano PC is coming out at a crucial time,“ said Alex Klein, Cofounder & CEO of Kano. “We believe in a better future. The team at Microsoft shares this optimism. Together we make technology that opens minds and sparks creation, not just consumption.”
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+Microsoft needs to compete with chromebook in classrooms, support stem, coding, without requiring the purchase a kit. 
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+software optimized for low powered devices like the Pi laid the groundwork for the speed on this device.
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+1/3 of schools just replace, don't repair. make it repairable.
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+performance, load times
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+running modern websites 
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+schools haven't caught up in the US so a lot of parents are taking this on themselves.
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+the transition betweent he original kano 10.1 inch screem very thick, then windows 10 S mode small release, then the more serious effort.
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+Kano also runs what WIRED has called the Github for kids.  
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+https://www.wired.com/2015/05/kano-world/
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+# Old Articles
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+The problem is schools are already heavily invested in Windows. "Kids want to play Fortnight, teachers need Microsoft Office. Another sad data point: the websites and online tools kids and their teachers use often require huge amounts of JavaScript that's simply too slow on smaller chips like 
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+Klein has built an entire company around the idea that kids might actually like to build their own filter (or computer). When Kano launched in 2013, it was lauded for demystifying computing through its physical design. The company’s first kit consisted of a keyboard, wires, and a Raspberry Pi that connected to an external monitor. Then last year, Kano launched a screen, turning the original kit into something more akin to a full-fledged computer. Now, Kano is launching three new standalone kits—a DIY camera, speaker, and pixel board ($130 each)—that double down on the idea that physical computing is the future of computer science education.
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+Learning to code isn’t as easy as snapping a photo, but Alex Klein is betting that the two are more closely connected than you might think. Klein is the co-founder of Kano (the British company that developed the cleverly designed DIY computer kit that teaches kids to code), and on a recent fall day he’s sitting in front of me with a transparent camera in his hand, showing me how to build my own photo filter.
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+"When Kano launched in 2013, we called it a “drool-worthy kit that lets kids build their own computers.” Of course, it was a computer in the most basic sense of the word, an impeccably designed kit with a keyboard, wiring and a Raspberry Pi to power a variety of learn-to-code activities. But it was missing one thing: a screen."
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+Kano co-founder Alex Klein. So the company's decided to give people a 10.1-inch LCD screen that hooks up to the Kano's Raspberry Pi.
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+# NOTES
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+kano, the company the kickstarted approachable rasp pi
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+build your own camera, code your own filters. 
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+kano world, kid's github
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+Microsoft needs to compete with chromebook in classrooms, support stem, coding, without requiring the purchase a kit. 
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+Fusion of the ethics of the maker movement, with the reach and power of microsoft. Kano Pc 
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+software optimized for low powered devices like the Pi laid the groundwork for the speed on this device.
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+1/3 of schools just replace, don't repair. make it repairable.
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+performance, load times
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+running modern websites 
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+schools haven't caught up in the US so a lot of parents are taking this on themselves.
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+the transition betweent he original kano 10.1 inch screem very thick, then windows 10 S mode small release, then the more serious effort.
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