Les Pounder
Content Editor at Pimoroni Ltd
Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLes Pounder is a maker-focused content editor and technologist with 12+ years blending hands-on hardware projects, technical writing, and community training. Based in Blackpool, he creates inspirational tutorials and features for maker audiences at Pimoroni and as a long-standing freelance author for titles like Linux Format, MagPi and HackSpace. A former Raspberry Pi Foundation lead trainer and Picademy instructor, he translates complex topics—Linux, Python, Arduino, GPIO and electronics—into practical classroom and magazine projects. Les pairs real-world system administration and web development experience with event organisation and public speaking, having founded regional tech meetups and run Barcamp-style gatherings. Beyond articles and books, his portfolio includes quirky maker builds (a Raspberry Pi fortune-telling arcade and an emergency radio beacon) that demonstrate a playful engineering approach to education. He’s equally comfortable auditing servers or crafting step-by-step tutorials, making technical subjects accessible to learners and hobbyists.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Highfield High School
Github Skills (46)
gpio8
llama8
i2c7
raspberry7
raspberry-pi6
python6
raspberry-pi-pico6
menu5
hardware5
hat4
micropython4
code-golf3
shell3
displays3
json3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lesp/BlackpoolMakerspaceLaserCutter
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 3 months
laserinstructionsoperatingk40cutter
lesp/JSON-Birthday
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
JSON Birthday obvs
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
json
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