Pi Party Gallery

By Russell Barnes. Posted over 8 years ago.

Here's a look into what went on at Raspberry Pis fifth birthday extravaganza last weekend!

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine Issue 157

Issue 157, September 2025 out now!

Starter electronics: how to build and program circuits with a Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi Pico.

Last weekend was the Pi Party! Celebrating five years of Raspberry Pi, around 1500 people from around the world attended a weekend of fun and learning in Cambridge. Want to see what it was like? Here's some of our pictures from the party…

We had our own table for the event, right by the entrance!

The queue to get in was tremendous on the first day

Features editor Rob was ready in his one-of-a-kind hat to tell people about the magazine

Show floor

In OPiRation, you need to operate on poor Frankie

This four-player Galaga table on show was incredibly popular

Fritz is an interesting robot. It follows you. With its EYES.

The MeArm Pi has just been successfully crowdfunded, and it was on show at the Party

A digital wishing well made from LEDs

Make a wish

Roll up, roll up, test your strength on this classic carnival game

The amazing MonsterBorg from PiBorg was also on show

The Cannybot, which looks a lot like the robot we had a few issues ago. It is designed by the same person after all

The talks

Features ed Rob gave a talk on how to write for The MagPi. A full video of it will be up soon!

Foundation CEO Philip Colligan cuts the birthday cake

The Raspberry Pi engineers answer the tough questions in their talk

Sam Aaron closed out Saturday with his own brand of excellent Sonic Pi-generated music

Coding explosions brought the party to an explosive finish. Not literally, luckily

Olivia is one of the organisers of events like this at Raspberry Pi. After what we can only assume was a very stressful weekend/week/month, she came running up with these balloons shouting about being a 'balloon dragon'.