tech crunch district conference on c-span tonight at eight along with others like entrepreneur alex klein to describe this product computer design kit for children children. >> it's a computer. you just happened to make it yourself. it has the playability, the intuitiveness and accessible a perhaps a toy but it is powerful. kids around the world have used to make service, space station to automate the position of solar panels. kids using this kit have shared over 5 million lines of code. the idea behind the project is more to build a new kind of computer company from one that puts creativity in the front seat rather than consumption. it starts with a simple kit but from there you are building a hardware system with speakers servers, radios. you're hooking it up to the internet. i think it was inspired in many ways by the notion that making learning and playing are all intimately connected and all of us have this curious and creative spirit of a nine year old inside of us. all you need are the sort of simple steps, stories and affordable tools and you can break out. play can often become o

klein investor. how important has family been to get it off the starting blocks? alexe fact we're building this with mika, who i've known since birth, but he would probably not want me to reference that, added a lot of emotion to the product. as for sol, an incredible mentor. he introduced me to my cofounder. together, we teamed up in london. found a couple of misfits from around the world, ally handwrote from the playstation -- alejan dro from the playstation. all attracted to this affordable attractive computer. that core mission has attracted 18 of 36 -- a team of 36. we are trying to do something different, more creative and experimental with the world of the pc. the pc still sells 65 million units a year. but why are people experimenting like they did in the 1980's hacking it together and inventing something new? the world of the ec has become too homogenized. we want to put it all over the world with a new sense of experimentation. natasha: very ambitious. you actually started this on kickstarter, crowdfunding. you had some seed funding before as well. you raised

klein investor. how important has family been to get it off the starting blocks? alexct we're building this with mika, who i've known since birth, but he would probably not want me to reference that, added a lot of emotion to the product. as for sol, an incredible mentor. he introduced me to my cofounder. together, we teamed up in london. found a couple of misfits from around the world, ally handwrote from the playstation -- alejan dro from the playstation. all attracted to this affordable attractive computer. that core mission has attracted 18 of 36 -- a team of 36. we are trying to do something different, more creative and experimental with the world of the pc. the pc still sells 65 million units a year. but why are people experimenting like they did in the 1980's hacking it together and inventing something new? the world of the ec has become too homogenized. we want to put it all over the world with a new sense of experimentation. natasha: very ambitious. you actually started this on kickstarter, crowdfunding. you had some seed funding before as well. you raised $5

that is due to our next guest, alex klein. please welcome him and our moderator.ause] natasha: thanks for joining us. for those of you who may not know, you are basically building a diy computer and coding kit. kids put it all together. and you use raspberry pi and build an os that is accessible to kids. it is a complex product but you are making it simple for this target age group of seven to 14. is it fair to label it a toy? it has creative and educational potential, but you are designing something for kids to play with. alex: i would say it is a computer. you just happen to make it yourself. it has the intuitiveness and accessibility of a toy, but it is powerful. kids around the world use kano to position solar power. kids have shared over 5 million lines of code. the idea behind the project is to build a new computer company, one that puts creativity in the front seat rather than consumption. it may start with a simple kit but from there, you are building a hardware system. you are hooking it up to the internet. it was inspired by the notion that making learni