A Kickstarter has launched to fund DIY camera, speaker and lightboard kits Kano?a computer and coding kit brought to the masses after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013?has expanded its offerings to include DIY camera, lightboard, and speaker kits. A new Kickstarter is up to fund all three products, with a goal of raising $500,000 in the next 24 days. The idea behind Kano is to provide people of all ages with a kit and instructions to build their own tech products, which they can also code to their specific preferences. As Alex Klein, CEO and co-founder of Kano, puts it, "Tiny computers and sensors power the pervasive machines that surround us ? and yet, only a fraction of us know how to do much more than swipe their surface screens." With the camera kit, users can build five megapixels using a step-by-step storybook, code their own photo filters and colorful flashes, and add a tripwire sensor to trigger camera snaps. The pixel kit, which is used to build a lightboard, allows you to code lights, games, and art in millions of colors, add buttons, a joystick, and a tilt sensor, and also visualize things like sound, stocks and sports scores. Finally, the speaker kit allows you to build you own sound synthesizer, connecting code, samples, and a drumpad or adding a "gesture sensor" to stream and bend music, loops and beats.
All Kano kits run on Kano Code, a coding tool that lets everyone, from beginners to advanced users, create interactive apps...