Kano: A computer and coding kit for ages 6-12
us.kano.me
us.kano.me
Clearly you could put something together yourself for cheaper but then you would not have the cool book to teach the child to do it themselves and refer to.
What is sad tho is that Lego had this and much more like 10 years ago but never got anywhere close to the level of coverage this gets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms They also had a line for schools I remember actually having electromechanical legos to play with in primary school in the mid 90's and it seems they developed them more and more http://ceeo.tufts.edu/documents/journal/1999bemccr.pdf
PS: "Award-winning design, based on 10,000 hours with educators, artists, and kids." -> Who awarded for this design? I am really concerned if that's all you could deliver after spending 10,000 hours.
I have much younger nieces, perhaps this can be a little Xmas gift for them.
The other apps are all open source (https://github.com/KanoComputing). I don't think we currently have plans to release them separately, but we are a startup so things can change quickly!
Kano OS is based on Rasbian, from the Raspberry pi foundation, which is in turn based on Debian Linux.
Best of luck!
(Canvas uses this implementation, as do many others. But for instance many shader languages like GLSL do use a bottom-left origin.)
I'll put a class of teenagers who study fine art on it next week for a break from their Maths class. I'm in the UK, and all 16+ year old students who failed their school maths exam (called a GCSE, standard for all students in England) are now required to retake it when they go onto college. That isn't astoundingly popular with the students so we are always on the lookout for visually attractive and engaging stuff to try. I have 12 PCs in a flexible learning area....
...its just that the coordinate system you are using has a vertical axis that is flipped compared with the usual Maths convention. I know that one goes back to BASIC days but it still means a minor discontinuity with Maths. I do warn students that conventions (e.g. BODMAS vs RPN) are just conventions, there is no intrinsic reason why they are that way, so we'll just go with it.
I take your point about the Y axis - obviously it's technically easy to change, but we'd need to figure out how to do so without causing problems for our existing user base.
We will have a go sometime before Christmas as a play activity.
Don't change anything too fast- depends on your target market which is probably not Maths teachers.