In today's open source roundup: The Kano Linux kit makes learning to build and use computers fun for children. Plus: Three streaming music clients for Linux, and the eNcade is a portable retro gaming ...

Today's PCs aren't hugely friendly towards hardware hackers and tinkerers. Both OS X and Windows 8 are fairly closed operating systems, merely allowing coders to run commands and pulling a veil over ...

“So simple a child could do it” — I have heard that expression abused often in advertising. Yet it aptly applies to the Kano computer kit.Kano is a computer and coding kit that is suitable for all ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Kano is a computer that kids can build. The ...

Kano is a company best known for its build-it-yourself Linux computers, which are primarily targeted at education users. But today, its direction changed somewhat with the announcement of a new ...

Kano sells line of DIY computing kits designed to help kids learn to assemble and use computers and learn to code. Up until now most of the company’s kits have been built around Raspberry Pi ...

From Hackaball to the Mover Kit to Apple’s Swift Playgrounds, a cottage industry has lately sprung up of gadgets and apps dedicated to helping kids learn how to code. Kano, which launched in 2013 as a ...

NEW YORK — Don't count on your child becoming a rich professional coder some day just because he or she is using the new Kano computer and coding kit. But this clever, entertaining and educational ...

Kano Computing, a startup that plays in the learn to code space by adding a step-by-step hand-holding layer atop the Raspberry Pi single-board microcomputer to make hacking around with code and ...

Built on top of the Raspberry Pi, Kano is a build-it-yourself computer which launched on Kickstarter with the aim of pulling in $100,000 in crowd funding to get 1,000 of its Kano kits to market by ...