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today's video is sponsored by Kano and we're going to be taking a look today at their custom computer kit that is designed from the ground up to make kids excited about technology now they advertise that this is designed for kids 6 and up to build the computer learn how to set it up how to program on it and actually program their own little scripts and games and and just anything you can think of and it's designed to make kids her age ready for this world of technology and I thought that this was a perfect opportunity for those viewers who have kids or maybe our kids at heart themselves to check this thing out I've waited a couple months to do this we finally doing it and I can't wait now I'm going to kind of guide the video through here but really this is about the kids and what it's like for the kids to use this kit so that's why we've got Little J here she's going to be doing most of the work here and I'm just gonna kind of make sure that you know we keep on track because we kit you know kids they get a little distracted if you see something shiny are you're gonna run away sometimes I get distracted on my homework if I see my mom doing something go on I'm like what are you doing it and then I completely forget about what I'm doing and I get off track of it now just taking a kind of quick tour around the box it's kano orange it says computer kid on here and on the back it kind of talks about what is we're going to look at today I mean it's got a music app in there games hack snake minecraft pong other games that they can program hack and play with you can learn how to code you can even has video output you can hook this up to anything with an HDMI and HD software or HD input and and you can use this on TVs monitors whatever else I I can't wait so go ahead and let's go and unbox this thing and see what is inside remember this is a complete kit everything you need in one box there we go now when you open the box the first thing you see on the inside here is everything is guided I mean you've got different manuals here's step one step two step three and it's its intended to take you from beginning to end to get to where you want to be with this kit nice little pamphlet here talking more about the product nice little foam cover there and look at that mmm-hmm now real quickly what comes in the box here it comes with a wireless keyboard and trackpad so this is how you're going to control everything it's got a big yellow HDMI cable here so everything's nice and big and color bright color coordinated makes a lot easier for kids we have got a US micro USB plug right here flat cable a red one also forgot to mention the HDMI is a flat cable and then of course we have got the computer components that all have to be put together here's the speaker it's pretty much based off of Raspberry Pi so it's going to make it very very simple here's the power adapter here's the power brick so this thing does run off microUSB power and then here is everything else right here now I'm not going to mess with this because I want you to put all this together now obviously step one is to build the thing so why don't we go ahead and do that what do you say you want to build it can you do it you think that doesn't sound very confident can you do it yes let's try that again can you build this yes thank you putting the KO together is really easy it's 11 easy pieces to put together with the design concept of being as simple to use as Legos all kids know how to use Legos you've got like what thousands of them my cousin has like 5000 her cousin has 5000 labels well now you've got 11 more here that is basically a Raspberry Pi - very easy to put together all of the instructions are right here and very nicely Illustrated manual that kids have no problems using they say that this is recommended for ages 6 and up they think the sweet slots right around ages 9 or 10 but she had no problems at age 6 the moment you plug it into power it boots up and it starts guiding you through a little coding sequence to put in your name and then you've got to follow this white rabbit that gets lost in the memory of the Raspberry Pi and then you have to put in some code to keep a bomb from going off it's actually really really cool but everything inside the desktop is guided there's also another manual here step 2 that's designed to kind of guide you through the best way to start using the coding functions and learning the kind of the most efficient route and where to start and the you know progression of learning code inside of the Kano software here one of our favorite things to play is minecraft and what's cool about this is minecraft is included on here but it also has a hack function where you can hack the game and start playing with the code and setting up the world as you see fit by using code and it's pretty neat because it's all a visual representation of code where you drag puzzle pieces and complete the blocks because you know just like code you have to have a gift of your statement you have to complete it and it has to make sense it has to be correct well the building puzzle pieces on this for the code show you a visual representation of how code works which is exactly why it's tailored towards kids because it's something kids understand puzzle pieces and doing some very simple problem-solving so it's not even something that only kids can enjoy adults can enjoy this as well and it makes it if you've never seen a piece of code whatsoever it'll start to make sense because rather than just being a bunch of text in a notepad it's all puzzle pieces that start to make sense on how the flow of code works so they use Python and JavaScript on a lot of their coding methodology in here which is a very common language and you can get you started doing a lot of really cool things you can even play music on here by using computer code which is really really neat that it's really endless and if you go to Kano World and set up an account there's even more that you can do and you can download this thing is fully wirelessly connected to the internet it also has an rj45 adapter on it so that you can plug it into a wired internet if you want and a simple HDMI output so that you can hook it up to any TV or monitor it's very very simple obviously the footprint is small and you can set this thing up anywhere now don't just take my word for it in fact this has been featured on Forbes Wired the Guardian Wall Street Journal BBC Fast Company recode CS NBC quartz USA Today CNN CNN Money fortune tnw Time BuzzFeed and more tech outlets have actually featured this computer kit from ken o so it's something definitely worth taking a look at which is why when they approached me about sending me one for Little J to try out really what I think about it doesn't matter it really matters how the kids feel and as you can see she's having no problems whatsoever just apparently encasing herself in a room made of what is that diamond blocks we think I don't know it's a blue block I guess that's maybe a diamond block blue block with yellow in the middle if you know what the blue block with yellow in the middle is and minecraft put it down in the comments anyway if you want to check this out for yourself or your child or do it together this has actually been a fun experience to do together here then head over to us Ken ome there's a link in the description and you can check out the different options they have there are multiple kits different levels of kit that you can get for this and it's definitely worth checking out anyway thanks for watching today's video a huge thank you again to Ken o for sponsoring today's video little J absolutely love this thing to death and it's probably going to end up utilizing another monitor of mine full time for her to be able to hook this up and play with but I'm okay with that because this is only going to make her smarter while having fun at the same time the coding makes you think you're playing a game but really you are learning how to program and that is definitely the future in the world that we're looking at today so anyway thanks for watching let me know in the comments how you guys felt about this don't forget to check out the link head over to Cano get yours today and I you really can't go wrong with this anyway see you guys in the next video and maybe we'll do another one in the future and see how her progression is going on this anyway thanks for watching guys see you the next one