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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Harry Potter universe is already being used to get children excited about reading. Now Kano, makers of the kid-friendly Kano Computer Kit, is betting it can do the same for computer programming.

“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 ...