Les Pounder

Les Pounder

Les Pounder 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".

Articles by: Les Pounder

How To Crop and Zoom in OBS

How To Crop and Zoom in OBS

By Les Pounder published

Save yourself some time and learn how to crop and zoom sources into your OBS scenes.

Best Soldering Irons

Best Soldering Irons and Stations

By Les Pounder published

Choosing the right soldering iron can be difficult. Do you need temperature control, hot air rework and high wattage irons to do a good job?

Best RP2040 Boards

Best RP2040 Boards 2023

By Les Pounder published

In such a short space of time, the RP2040 has disrupted the microcontroller community and we now have a smörgåsbord of RP2040 boards to choose from.

Best Stemma QT, Grove

Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

By Les Pounder published

Solderless components to build your next project

Raspberry Pi Cases

The Best Raspberry Pi Cases 2023

By Les Pounder, Avram Piltch published

Find the right case for your Raspberry Pi.

Best Raspberry Pi HATs

Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2023: Expansion Boards for Every Project

By Les Pounder published

Raspberry Pi HATs let you add lights, motors, sensors and more.

The Orange Pi 800 keyboard computer

New Orange Pi 800 Juices Storage to 128GB

By Les Pounder published

Aping the Raspberry Pi 400 form factor, the Orange Pi 800 provides onboard eMMC storage which has just been doubled.

A group of Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi CEO: ‘Million-Unit Months’ Are Ahead

By Les Pounder published

In a community newsletter, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton expects 'million-unit months' from July 2023

Milk-V Mars SBC

Milk-V Unveils RISC-V Raspberry Pi Alternative: Milk-V Mars

By Les Pounder published

The middle board in a trio of RISC-V Raspberry Pi alternatives finally gets a name and a spec sheet, but no price.

Phanteks range of products at Computex 2023

Phanteks Announce NV9 and NV5 Cases, New AiO and Fans

By Les Pounder published

With two sides of tempered glass, the NV9 and NV5 offer a great view of your rig, and keeping it all cool could be Phanteks new AiO and fans.

TeamGroup Computex 2023

TeamGroup Announce 'Dazzling' Range at Computex

By Les Pounder published

High-speed DDR5 RAM, All-in-one cooling, NVMe PCIe5.0 cooling and humble USB flash drives all feature in TeamGroup's Computex press release.

LattePanda Sigma

LattePanda Sigma Review: Powerful Maker Desktop with Arduino Inside

By Les Pounder published

The LattePanda Sigma provides a powerful package for makers. A 13th Gen Intel CPU, 16GB of DDR5 and fast PCIe 4.0 are the brains behind this maker centric machine.

CircuitPython Cap Touch Pico

How to Use a Banana as Touch Input for Raspberry Pi Pico

By Les Pounder published

Using the bare minimum of parts and CircuitPython code, we build a touch interface using a banana as our only means of control.

ChatGPT

Worldwide Issues Hit ChatGPT, Service is Down (Updated: Service Restored)

By Les Pounder published

OpenAI confirms that users across the world are unable to use its AI services.

Milk-V Pioneer

Milk-V Offers a Trio of RISC-V Raspberry Pi Alternatives

By Les Pounder published

With models starting from $9, Milk-V is offering an enticing trio of Raspberry Pi alternatives — all of which are powered by a RISC-V CPU

Emulate Old PC Using PCem

From 8088 to Pentium: How To Emulate an Old PC Using PCem

By Les Pounder published

PCem is a free tool which enables anyone to have a whole museum of retro PCs in one place. Emulating classic hardware (CPU, GPU and Sound Cards) PCem is the full package of PC fun.

Eben Upton (L) interviewed by Jeff Geerling (R)

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Discusses Stock Updates, Industry Prioritization

By Les Pounder published

YouTuber Jeff Geerling travels the Atlantic for a face-to-face with Raspberry Pi CEO, Eben Upton

Brian Starkey's Inventor 2040 W robot

Bluetooth Raspberry Pi Pico W Robot Controlled via PlayStation 4 Controller

By Les Pounder published

Controlling a robot using the Raspberry Pi Pico W and Bluetooth is now a simple task thanks to a community project

Compute Blade

Compute Blade Review: Raspberry Pi on a Server Rack

By Les Pounder published

Put the Pi Compute Module in and you can use it on a rack.

Pimoroni Inventor HAT Mini

Pimoroni Inventor HAT Mini Review: Great for Making Robots

By Les Pounder published

A versatile board for roboticists, makers, experimenters and coders, Pimoroni’s Inventor HAT Mini is simple to use, low cost and robust enough for kids to get building.

Enabling Frame Generation in WIndows 10

How To Enable DLSS 3 Frame Generation in Windows 10

By Les Pounder published

Armed with an RTX 4070 and a need for more fps, I used AI to almost double my FPS.

DietPi on Raspberry Pi 4

DietPi v8.17 Announced With New Software and SBC Enhancements

By Les Pounder published

DietPi, the lightweight Debian based alternative OS announces a new update which sees new software and enhancements for many different SBCs

Raspberry Pi

Leica MPi Camera Uses Raspberry Pi Zero W with HQ Camera Module

By Ash Hill published

Michael Suguitan has put a Raspberry Pi Zero W inside of a Leica M2 camera along with a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera module.

Orange Pi 5 Plus

Raspberry Pi Alternative Orange Pi 5 Plus Brings RK3588 to the SBC Game

By Les Pounder published

Orange Pi 5 is set to launch its latest SBC with a beefier RK3588 SoC and a plethora of RAM options

A group of Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Release Updated OS

By Les Pounder published

Two months since the last release, Raspberry Pi OS sees an updated kernel, applications and improved software libraries for its range of cameras.

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