About the Author

Les Pounder is a freelance journalist who loves to tinker with Raspberry Pi, robots and Arduinos. He writes for print magazines and regularly writes blog posts for Element 14.

Fritzing

Put the digital world aside and go back to the days of analog circuits with this cool open source application.

See the Light!

Create illuminating art with micro:bit

Thirsty Plants Love micro:bit!

Use micro:bit to water your plants!

What’s a micro:bit?

The micro:bit is a not too expensive board that lets you easily build projects to learn about computing.

Build an Electronic Sorting Hat

A fun way to learn basic electronics and coding with Python but minus the old rotting hat.

Creating Shapes and Patterns with Scratch2

Here's a fun game you can create with Scratch2 that draws geometric shapes!

Cracking the Code with Scratch2

This project creates a math quiz to test your multiplication and division skills.

A Sonic Pi Christmas

To celebrate this wonderful time of the year, let’s create some holiday music using Sonic Pi on our Raspberry Pi.

Build a Raspberry Pi Game

This is a great project for a morning or afternoon. Plus you will have a board game to play when you're done.