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today I am having an experience like no other literally because thanks to kennel sponsoring this video I will be the first person in the world who gets to cover the Harry Potter canno coding kit in their own words you will build a wand for yourself learn to code and you will yes this is a direct quote from the packaging wave your coding wand let's find out how that works okay so the software is currently pre-release for this so I've gone ahead and I've assembled an entire array of every device that the final product will support so I've got a OS Android Mac OS and Windows but I'm gonna go ahead and as much as this is gonna be a struggle for me I'm gonna use the Mac OS version of it because that's apparently the one that is the most complete right now so we're not gonna be having the entire experience because it's not done I mean there is no entire experience because you can like I've actually got some experience with the original kanno computer kit I built it with my son and he's actually used it quite a bit since then and there's not really like there's not like it like add beat the boss and it's over type thing like it's more of a learning product but we aren't gonna have even the entire pre-canned experience because it's not quite done yet so so this is it come on over here Ollivander would be proud how to make a wand the handbook go ahead and put that there look at this they got like a little thing okay alright so um snap click swish swish I haven't watched the movies in a while but I'm still getting I'm still getting the references here oh wow there is a spell guide stupefy Wingardium Leviosa it's Leviosa not Leviosa I know letti oh so not Leviosa I'm sorry I know I know Lumos so these are some of the gestures that you can do quick guide to one motions I totally I totally want this poster like regardless of the product I like actually would just buy this poster ah what else we got here okay we could look at the instructions ooh that's that's a construction book this is your wand it's made of plastic rubber copper and electronics okay got your wand tip got a lanyard so you don't throw it into the TV one handle one brain button and to triple-a batteries let's build your wand pick up this piece they really do make this stuff simple that was something that I thought they did a great job of when I built the cow no computer kit with my son I mean even he was able to do it he wasn't even 6:00 yet okay pick up this piece count it it's called a printed circuit board or PCB look closely at the parts well that's fun so there's your power controller so charging must come in somewhere near there but I don't actually see it here's our processor here's an activity light of some sort here's our codable vibration motor oh cool there's hydration feedback so the Bluetooth antenna this is fun actually this is cool so a lot of people think that devices that don't have external antennas don't necessarily have antennas but what they actually are is they're generally copper on printed circuit board so you can see in order to make the antenna longer than it would otherwise be able to be they've gone and they've snaked it like this neat right learn something every day here's some sensors here's the button and then this is a codable light so you've got both vibration and light feedback let's add some power turn the PCB over there you go so the batteries just go right in there bippity Boppity ha ha that's not Harry Potter nevermind okay so we got oh that is RGB like in that our Bluetooth looks like it's in pairing mode oh wow wow these are really step by steps a lot the first I'm Way ahead of you way ahead of you make sure your batteries are facing this way got it flip the PCB over make sure the blue light is on if not check the batteries are the right way right got it inside this little black square our three sensors a gyroscope that senses gravity so the wand will know which way is up and down an accelerometer so the one will be able to know how fast it's going and a magnetometer to calculate the ones direct so gravity speed right it's almost looking like like a spell guide now we're getting there we're getting close so it knows if you're moving it up down forward backward left right fast or slow that's cool so basically there's almost no limit if you can get your muscle memory just right - what you could do with it okay more instructions on how to put in the button I'm good I figured that out wow they really yep they're making it simple flip it over make sure the button is peeping out I think we got this this looked like heavy reading but actually it's not pick up your wand with it you'll do great things with the right movements the right words a bit of curiosity and courage when this then flame particles Windex flame particles one why that's cool you can make feathers flow flames flow jelly beans grow and gorgeo first challenge let's use your coding wand to make a feather levitate open the objects tray got this drag the block onto your code space change seconds to milliseconds and open the physics tray and drag this block right about there so every one millisecond do objects that position of all two x and y coordinates of the wand cool so drag this block into your code space throw that on to your exposition oops look there you go and then we also need the wand Y position there we go and then we open the physics tray and set the angle to oh I see what we want to do so we want to change pitch to roll that way we can roll the feather around very cool so you can actually see a preview see that so you can wave and roll your wand and watch the feather match your movements and then Reducto you can choose what kind of beans you want we could do regular beans and gorgey oh wow ha ha can you guys hear the the vibrating feedback oh I can't make them any bigger okay Reducto I'm a wizard airy so we're gonna cast a cast immobulus on a swarm of Cornish Pixies we'll do change all to random and change 0 to 60 so they fly towards each other so this is gonna be quite the swarm of Pixies then so this is creating our Pixies then we need to create a wand action to control these bloody things we've got our one centered thanks to the power of block coding even I was able to figure it out so now we can restart the program you can see what happens is we have a bunch of pixie spawn and they're running all over the place in zero gravity boom off it goes and then you go like this Wow and they freeze immobulus last challenge now we get to create fire this is actually the part I was waiting for first add a loop so we are always generating particles one of the neatest things about this software is that you can see what's happening in real time over on the side so I can see that every one second is not great so now every one millisecond now we get a thousand times as much fire and then if I were to point my wand at the screen here I'm just going to Center it again boom now I'm creating these these particles that are flying out from the point of the wand so you can see the cursor there as well there you have it summoning fire out of the wand and you can follow along with absolutely everything that we changed so now instead of having uniform particles we've made them clumpy ER we've made them change color and we've made them go from bigger down to smaller so that you get a much more realistic fire like effect with your wand so this just a small slice of what you'll be able to do with the Harry Potter canno coding kit you will actually be able to program actions for gestures and just like the original can oh the sky is the limit in terms of your creativity so yes there's going to be tutorials and demos and little challenges that you can complete if you're looking to take a Harry Potter fan in your life be they small or adult sized and introduce them to the power of coding but then the real fun is to be had in the learning experiences that you can have after you've completed the in-the-box challenges so guys it's going to be available for $99.99 starting October 1st and you can pre-order it right now at the link in the video description guys if you want to find out more information you can check out the link in the video description thank you for watching and thanks again to Cano not only for sponsoring this video but also for letting me be one of the first people in the world to experience this piece of computing magic