Les Pounder

@biglesp.bsky.social

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Content Editor at Pimoroni I've worked with Tom's Hardware Raspberry Pi Foundation BBC No Starch Press TechRadar The MagPi Hackspace Electromaker Linux User & Developer Linux Voice Linux Format No Starch Press All views are my own

Barra brith cake and tea.
Barra brith tea loaf fresh from the oven and covered in honey.
Image showing all of the Pimoroni blog posts that I have written since I started back in April 2026
Thermal image of Connor, taken with a Tufty 2350 thermal camera
A Stellar Unicorn 3D printed stand
My Stellar Unicorn stand in FreeCAD
Duke the dog, scratching himself.
Home Assitant Connect, Home Assistant Green, Sonoff Zigbee button and a Pimoroni Stellar Unicorn
A laptop with SPOKE connected via USB. There is a piece of card and copper tape connected by crocodile clips.
SPOKE board from VulpesLabs
Asteroids on a Tufty 2350
a sticker wall has begun on a piece of foamcore board
Workpro impact driver next to a banana for scale
Workpro impact driver, £28 from Morrisons
A messy desk of Pimoroni products. Tufty 2350, Plasma 2350 W and a crystal skull full of RGB LEDs
The full range of LTT screwdrivers on a green cutting mat, on top of a wooden table
A collection of screwdrivers on my bench.
Star Trek commbadge
The maker section of my office. There is a 3D printer, soldering iron, tools and shelves full of gadgets and gizmos.
Star Trek commbadge
3D printer screen showing that levelling is complete
A messy desk full of tools and a 3D printer which is being worked on.
A HP Elitedesk mini PC running CachyOS Linux.
Shelves filled with tech
An ArgonOneUP Raspberry Pi laptop running TwisterOS. The desk is very messy.
A messy desk as I repair a vacuum cleaner with my new LTT screwdrivers.
A Raspberry Pi we server lays atop my DIY network storage device.
a roller coaster super imposed over a stock image of Raspberry Pi boards.
Pimoroni Badger 2350 menu with my ISS app
The Greggs Roulette app running on Tufty 2350, the screenshot has the device in the centre, with orange "Greggs Roulette" text on top of it.
Black and white image on a smart paper screen
PicoIDE, a beige case drive to emulate old hard drives and CD ROMS on vintage hardware. Image Credit: Polpotronics / Ian Scott
The Lazarustorm PCB, with a PiStorm PCB and Raspberry Pi 3A+ made into a big PCB sandwich. This is a still taken from TME Retro's excellent YouTube video.
Maker Advent title card for the final episode. A Commodore 64 BASIC programme is running, controlling an LED to turn on and off.
A Commodore 64 Ultimate User Port expansion!
A PSION 3A running OPL code.
A BASIC application running in QB64 PE, with Maker Advent logos and title cards edited to create a thumbnail.
Screenshot from level one of Cleared Hot, with Maker Advent graphics and a live stream of me in the corner.
A bench with a USB vacuum cleaner resting upon it.
Maker Advent title card shows soldering irons on a bench, two hands cradle a USB soldering iron like a child.
Santa / Father Christmas ironing his suit ready for the big day.
A toy chainsaw, which uses the same circuit to make sound in this video.
Me, playing The Empire Strikes Back on the Commodore 64 Ultimate via a video capture card. I am testing out my DIY joystick.
The new Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight edition on my bench. It has lots of RGB LEDs lit.
Two Commodore 64 Ultimate computers under the Christmas tree
An image of me, holding a Cytron Maker Uno to the camera, BASIC code is underneath me, to the right is the output of the code.
Maker Advent day 14 title card shows me, holding the circuit, an Android phone running ntfy.sh, and on the right, the code that powers the project.
A hand covering an ESP32 micrcontroller.
A green cutting mat with tools placed upon it. The word "Tools!!!" is written across the screen using Microsoft Word Art. It looks awful, but I love it!
An SSD adapter on a green cutting mat. The adapter converts M.2 SSDs into 2.5 inch drives.
An M.2 SATA SSD to 2.5 inch drive adapter on a green cutting mat
Two Christmas ornaments depicting a forest lit with a single LED. One LED is warm white, the other is RGB and is currently green. There are books on a shelf, an orange lamp, and a picture of my old dog, Dexter, who I miss very much.