Raspberry Pi: Big Birthday Weekend Wrap-Up

e14megan — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:02:53 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14megan on 10/6/2021 9:02:53 PM

Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi Foundation celebrated it's 5th Birthday, hosting a Big Birthday Weekend and #piparty to celebrate. To help mark the occasion, we wanted to send them something special from members of the element14 community. Here are the results!

The Birthday Card

Back in February, we asked you to send us your well wishes for the Rasperry Pi Foundation so we could put together a truly momentous card to mark the occasion Needless to say - we succeeded! Dozens of community memebers replied with your comments and signs of birthday cheer,

and we were able to create a card appropriately sized for all the love and affection we have for the Raspberry Pi.

You can see it here, with a Raspberry Pi Zero W for scale.

The Present

But what's a birthday party without presents? In addition to the card, spannerspencer put together a deluxe version of the Raspberry Pi 3 Retro Gaming Table as a special gift to to the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The table was on site for the event, and you can see for yourself that it was definitely a huge hit.

{gallery} Pik3a Deluxe Retro Gaming Table

What's more, he even put together a blog outlining the development process, as well as some of the considerations and challenges he encountered when putting together a deluxe version of one of our most popular projects. You can read more about it's creation, here: PIK3A Deluxe - Four Player Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Table.

So once again, thank you for all your help in enabling us to make Raspberry Pi's 5th Birthday a truly memorable experience. While we know there will be many more years and many more models to come, you only turn 5 once!

View more from the Big Birthday Weekend over on Twitter, using the hashtag: #piparty.

Tags: community, piparty, element14, raspberry pi, birthday