Build your own touchscreen PC with Kano’s latest computer kit – and then start coding

Kids these days. They don’t remember when your computer showed up as a kit you put together yourself, and sat there expecting you to learn to code on it. Until now, that is, because Kano’s Computer Kit Touch (£279.99) invites you to build your own PC – and because it’s 2018 and not 1980, it’s got a 10.1-inch touchscreen too. In fact, it’s got way more than that – a wireless keyboard, speakers, cables, a battery, a Raspberry Pi, a mic, and a bunch of stickers for plastering all over your face when it all gets a bit too much. When the kit’s finally complete, tutorials take you from block-based coding to full-on Terminal commands. And who wouldn’t want to become a coding genius when armed with a seriously cool and chunky touchscreen PC with a bright orange keyboard?

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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