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Let the #piparty Begin! Celebrate Raspberry Pi's 5th Birthday with element14!

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2012 was a pretty fantastic year for technology. CERN announced the discovery of the "Higgs boson particle", doctors used 3D printing to perform a jaw transplant, and NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars. But perhaps most importantly (in our somewhat biased opinion), we welcomed a single-board bundle of joy into our lives: Raspberry Pi.

 

Five years later, the Raspberry Pi is still inspiring makers, educators, and engineers to learn, solve problems, and above all else, have fun with technology. And the #PiParty is just getting started! To celebrate the occasion, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is holding a very special Big Birthday Weekend this March in Cambridge, UK. While some of you may be fortunate enough to join the festivities in person, we wanted to ensure that every member of the element14 community has a chance to send some birthday cheer with a very special #PiParty birthday card. And with your help, we want to make sure it’s a very, very, very big card.

 

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Comment below with your birthday wishes for the Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We’ll be gathering your messages, printing them out, and putting them into a giant birthday card to send to the good folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation!

 

To ensure that we have enough time to create this masterpiece, be sure to reply no later than February 22nd!

 

Happy Birthday, Raspberry Pi!

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  • makerkaren
    makerkaren over 9 years ago +8
    I love Raspberry Pi so much that I threw it a #PiParty a year before it even existed. Happy birthday from i3Detroit in 2011! (And also from 2017. I still love pi. And pie.) ~Karen Corbeill of the Ben Heck…
  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 9 years ago +7
    Congratulations to Element14 for being a rPi'ed Piper!
  • satyavrat
    satyavrat over 9 years ago +7
    You've been the server to handle my every request, You've been the superuser in my projects, never the guest, You've been compatible with each one of my sensors, You've been an SQL driven data dispenser…
  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    NAILSEA

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to jim.patience

    I thought it said NAUSEA arcade.

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  • filipepires
    filipepires over 9 years ago

    A very Pi-hug to all RPi team for the great job.

    A great hap-Pi day.

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  • jim.patience
    jim.patience over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

    From my not-quite-finished arcade. Only just found this old image, powered by a Raspberry Pi 2.
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  • Cabe
    Cabe over 9 years ago

    Happy Birthday, still going from strength to strength.

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  • tonynash74
    tonynash74 over 9 years ago

    Happy 5th birthday you absolute stunner of a machine. my journey with you only started recently but boy am i having fun.... Our first Pi3 was bought for my 7yr old son to learn python programming for minecraft but now i run several myself (including a cluster) .... rock on. may the future hold much much more for you.

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  • rscasny
    rscasny over 9 years ago

    Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi! For such a young and little guy, you have gone a long way in inspiring a generation of technology enthusiasts. Hope you have many more birth days to come.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    In case anyone missed it, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched two MOOC courses on Futurelearn this week:

     

    • Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python
      https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/physical-computing-raspberry-pi-python/1/register

     

    • Teaching Programming in Primary Schools
      https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teaching-programming-primary-school/1/register

     

    It's never too late to learn...

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 9 years ago

    Happy 5th birthday Raspberry Pi !

     

    It has been an amazing journey so far.

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  • jim.patience
    jim.patience over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

    *tips hat* far more impressive than what I have.

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