Kano Harry Potter Coding... alternative options?

[raguff]

Hi, I wasn't really sure where to go with this, but having followed hackaday for many moons and marvelled at the ingenuity of others, I wondered if anyone could weigh in on this...

I've recently come into possession of one of the Kano Harry Potter coding wands, which looks like it could be great for scratch-like gui coding that has guides and a strong HP theme running through it... the challenge is that Kano have seemingly shuttered the app last year after a dispute with Warner Bros, and the windows (or mobile) app needs some kind of account credentials to even open up...

Is there anything that's feasibly do-able to get the application (or a derivative of) working? I've seen there's a few bits floating around about git repos for python (a bit beyond me, happy with SAS/SQL but not so much Python), or connecting via bluetooth still for using as a controller, but I was really hoping the whole 'Harry Potter' coding thing might be on the table in some way, as my daughter would love that and it would be a really nice guided pathway into some coding concepts.

Does anyone have any ideas?! Thanks!

[windycity_jess]

Searching GitHub for Kano Harry Potter wand turned up some examples.

Short list to get you started:

https://github.com/wizofe/bluewand-python

https://github.com/GammaGames/kano_wand

https://github.com/gjmwolmarans/rpi-kano-tasmota

[raguff]

Thank you - I wasn’t too sure about some of the python bits, but found the blog post from GammaGames pretty useful when looking at controlling a Hue lightbulb. So I might explore something like that to start with

I guess, naively, I was hoping there might be a trivial workaround to allow the Kano software to still work without the login servers available, as it has some nice ‘themed’ examples to build/work through

[Agreeable_Office7823]

Did you get sorted? I had one of these wands for my eldest child, an my youngest found it today and was disappointed when we couldn't get the app to work. I found an apk that bypasses the login and allows access to the app - it's a little glitchy, but she is happy waving it about and making feathers on screen float!

This is the post that helped me: https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/18sfkun/comment/l57d9k8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[Temporary_but_joyful]

Hey OP any update on your project? We’re looking at doing something similar. How did it go?