There’s a new weapon in the fight to keep kids engaged in computer science — a tiny single-board computer from the U.K. called Kano. Kano’s the brainchild of Alex Klein, whose young cousin Mika ...

We live in an age where many children have access to smartphones, tablets and laptops. They’re powerful and intuitive, offering the Web and an ever-growing library of apps to explore. Learning and ...

Earlier this week, technology startup Kano returned to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for its new creative computer systems. The company previously secured $1,522,160 from 13,387 ...

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It felt a little like Christmas, opening and unpacking the Kano box with my kids. Everything about the computer kit felt designed for children — like the tiny orange keyboard, the chunky see-through ...

They set out with a mission to enable any kid to build their own computer from a lego-like kit, now for Kano the next step is to make sure children across Asia have that access – an interesting ...

Kano, the company behind a variety of build-it-yourself computer and coding kits, has unveiled a "laptop" today. A portable computer is probably more accurate. Whereas most laptops have a clamshell ...

There are plenty of toys out there that promise to get children interested in computing, but the one I found especially intriguing last year was Kano’s Computer Kit. It’s a laptop you put together ...

It’s still basically a dressed-up Raspberry Pi 3 The core of the Computer Kit Complete is the same as the regular Computer Kit. It’s still basically a dressed-up Raspberry Pi 3 that runs the Kano OS ...

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 ...