Great dialectic and questions – that’s why I love HN. I'm Alex, cofounder and product at Kano. On monkey – thanks for kind words all. Her name's Lily, used to

Great dialectic and questions – that’s why I love HN. I'm Alex, cofounder and product at Kano. On monkey – thanks for kind words all. Her name's Lily, used to work in VC. We’re working hard to make Raspberry Pi accessible to everyone. Challenge was first set by my 7-year-old cousin, to "make it as simple as Lego." The Pi is a brilliant piece of tech and the most promising "vector" yet to infect a new generation with open source. That’s why we’ve designed and built our own custom hardware and made sure that everything – from the touchpad keyboard to the DIY speaker – works perfectly, and sparks curiosity. We’re also rolling out our own Debian distro, Kano OS, with new UI, utilities, and software projects – all of which we’ll be open sourcing and pushing up-stream where possible. Some cool integrations too (Minecraft, Pong, Codecademy). We’ll try to trickle these out here amid the Kickstarter (Nov 19) for raves/heckles. Cheers, Alex