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Yonatan Raz-Fridman and Alex Klein&rsquo;s company Kano uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2013\/2-raspberry-pi\/\">Raspberry Pi<\/a> single-board computer as the basis for its colourful do-it-yourself computer kit. Kano has also released the simplest, most fun OS for Raspberry Pi, as well as illustrated books of computer projects and stories.<\/p>\n<p>The proposition is instantly appealing, and this is reflected in Kano&rsquo;s wildly successful campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter &ndash; its pitch raised a whopping $1.5m, making it the most crowdfunded learning invention of all time. Although the &pound;99 kit will only start shipping in September, its Kickstarter pitch has already seen 13,000 pre-orders from backers in 80 countries &ndash; including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak &ndash; helping to generate an expected turnover of &pound;1m by December. 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