They felt that dropping the child gently into a colourful desktop environment was depriving them of the glory days of the 1980s and kids were better off being forced to use the command line. The third thing that people had a problem with was abstraction.
The way you present these items to children is critical and as my son worked through the booklets I started to see where Kano beat anything I could have put in front of him. However Kano is far more than the Pi, case, cables and keyboard. If you can get by with a carrier bag of generic eBay bits then fine … congratulations. This is true if you ignore all the additional value that the Kano experience offers. Some complained the kit was too expensive and people could create their own for half the price. This was always a strange reason for not liking it as the Raspberry Pi Foundation had always made it clear they wanted companies to create products based around the Pi. This seemed to be mainly based on the perception that Kano was attempting to create a commercial product based on the success of the Raspberry Pi. I remember when Kano first appeared on the Raspberry Pi scene and it was met with a luke warm reception by some in the community.
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I got the kit for free but the opinions and thoughts in this article are mine or based on those of my son. Under normal circumstances I would struggle to review this sort of product but I’ve got access to a small human child so decided this would make for a much more interesting test. Kano contacted me and asked if I wanted to take a look at the kit after the recent launch of the Pi 3. In the UK the current price for the standard kit is £119.99 from the Kano site. It comprises of a kit of parts which can be used with a set of software activities. Kano is a Raspberry Pi based computer kit aimed at children and was launched on Kickstarter in 2013.
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