Kano tries to make learning code magical with its new Harry Potter Coding kit

Kano tries to make learning code magical with its new Harry Potter Coding kit

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17604924/harry-potter-kano-coding-kit-learn-wand-accelerometer-motiono-controls-wizarding

Kano’s DIY computer kits have been some of the more interesting learn-to-code projects out there, with brightly colored, well-designed hardware backed up by a surprisingly solid software backbone. But this October, the company is taking a jump from teaching coding projects to something a little more fantastical: teaching magic, or the next closest thing, anyway, with the new Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit. The kit combines a motion tracking wand with Kano’s software and the trappings of the Harry Potter world to make learning to code a little more magical.

If you’re familiar with Kano’s previous kits, the Harry Potter Coding Kit should be familiar. In line with Kano’s other products, you’ll snap together the pieces of the wand yourself, connect over Bluetooth to a computer, iOS, or Android device, and dive into a variety of Hogwarts-themed coding challenges that take advantage of the bevy of sensors built into the wand.