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You can’t go to Hogwarts to learn magic, but the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit teaches programming as if you’re in the Wizarding World. It comes with a wireless wand, and you flick and swish through ...

Kano, a manufacturer of DIY computer and coding sets, has partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products for a Harry Potter magic wand STEM kit. The Harry Potter Coding Kit walks kids through the ...

The Harry Potter Coding kit from Kano is a fun way to learn about computers. First, kids build a bluetooth connected magic wand. From there, the Kano software steps future wizards through block coding ...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” the sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke once wrote. Making that link even more explicit is a new Harry Potter Coding Kit, which just ...

Coding kit builder Kano released its Harry Potter coding wand in October. The wand costs £99.99/$99.99, and is designed to get muggle kids into coding by letting them to code spells which they can ...

Jefferson-Morgan seventh-grader Anthony Mason uses a Harry Potter wand to learn computer coding during a new class that started last year. As muggles, they may not have gotten acceptance letters from ...

As Arthur C Clarke's third law has it, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Cars that drive themselves, speakers that play music when you talk to them, or lightbulbs ...

Kano’s first coding kits aimed at kids were basically some-assembly-required computers based on the Raspberry Pi line of devices. Then the company branched out into other product categories including ...