Articles by: Les Pounder

Les Pounder

Les Pounder (Associate Editor) is a creative technologist and for seven years has created projects to educate and inspire minds both young and old. He has worked with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to write and deliver their teacher training programme "Picademy".

Pimoroni Tiny 2040 Review: A Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico

By Les Pounder

The first RP2040 based board from a Raspberry Pi Pico partner, it is also the smallest and has features not present on the official development board.

A 3D game running on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Raspberry Pi Pico Used To Recreate Classic Nintendo Gaming Effect

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi Pico is rapidly becoming the "go-to" board for emulation. This project simulates the classic SNES Mode 7 effect for 3D gaming.

Seeed Grove Shield for Raspberry Pi Pico Review: Electronics as simple as Lego

By Les Pounder

The perfect way to start your electronics learning journey.

Pimoroni Pico Display Review: An IPS screen for your Raspberry Pi Pico

By Les Pounder

A simple and cost effective entry into animations, games and scrolling text for your Raspberry Pi Pico.

Pimoroni Pico Explorer Base Review: Expanding Your Raspberry Pi Pico

By Les Pounder

A one-stop shop of features designed to enhance the Raspberry Pi Pico experience and help everyone to experiment with electronics.

Raspberry Pi Pico Gains Unix-like Operating System

By Les Pounder

Fuzix is a Unix-like operating system capable of running on hardware as old as Z80 and 68000 processors.

Raspberry Pi Pico 'Pi Silicon' Heading Out To Partners

By Les Pounder

In a tweet from Raspberry Pi Trading CEO Eben Upton we see thousands of RP2040 chips being sent out to board partners.

Raspberry Pi Taps Into Brewery Management

By Les Pounder

Craft brewery inventory management app Keg Punk aims to keep an eye on what beers you have in stock.

Pine64 Announces 'Next Generation' Quartz64 Single Board Computer

By Les Pounder

Quartz64 provides plenty of space for expansion and heralds the next generation of SBCs for Pine64.

Pimoroni Pico Unicorn Review: RGB Light Show for Your Pico

By Les Pounder

One of the first add-ons designed exclusively for the Raspberry Pi Pico provides attractive rainbow colors and configurable buttons.

With 200K Sold in 3 Weeks, Raspberry Pi Pico is Selling Out. Here's Where to Buy.

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi Pico is in high demand thanks to its low cost, ease of use and incredible power.

Raspberry Pi Pico Finally Gains A Reset Button

By Les Pounder

UK retailer Pimoroni provides an aftermarket means to reset your Raspberry Pi Pico.

First 'Pi Silicon' Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect Spotted

By Les Pounder

In a tweet from the official Arduino account, we see the first Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect boards fresh from production.

Cubox-M Aims To Be Your Raspberry Pi Alternative

By Les Pounder

A rather cubical SBC offering more power than a Raspberry Pi 4 in a much smaller package.

Raspberry Pi Pico powered Space Invaders

Raspberry Pi Pico Powers Space Invaders Clone

By Les Pounder

Space Invaders kickstarted the golden age of arcades, but with this project and a Raspberry Pi Pico, we can make our own machine.

Raspberry Pi Pico DVI Sock Adds Video Output To Your Pico

By Les Pounder

A surface mount add-on for the Raspberry Pi Pico which provides DVI video output from the $4 board.

Pimoroni to Release RP2040-Powered Mechanical Keyboard

By Les Pounder

Pimoroni are set to release their latest Keybow, now powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 SoC.

Community Ports Raspberry Pi Pico Setup Script To Windows

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi community has fully embraced the Raspberry Pi Pico, and here we see a community project to port the pico-setup script to Windows.

New Pico Clone Looks Just Like Raspberry Pi Zero

By Les Pounder

Maker Arturo182 has merged the new Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 SoC into the Raspberry Pi Zero form factor.

How to Reset Your Raspberry Pi Pico With a Button

By Les Pounder

With just a few components we can quickly build a reset switch to prolong the life of our Pico.

ArduCAM Demos Raspberry Pi Pico Video Streaming and Person Detection

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi Pico is proving to be a hackers delight. ArduCAM have released a demo of their cameras working with the latest $4 Raspberry Pi Pico.

Raspberry Pi Pico Emulates Nintendo Console

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi Pico is quickly becoming the Swiss Army knife of retro hacks, now it can emulate a Nintendo Entertainment System.

Alternative Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Carrier Board Offers Familiar Layout

By Les Pounder

The Raspberry Pi Community have embraced the Compute Module 4 and we are now seeing a plethora of carrier boards designed to enhance our Raspberry Pi projects.