Celebrating Pi Day 2021

Celebrating Pi Day 2021

Every year on 03/14 everyone celebrates “Pi Day.” This is a reference to the math number and also Raspberry Pi.

I thought it’d be fun to write a short post to celebrate Pi Day. As part of my celebration, I also 3D printed a “Pi Trophy” object that I found on thingiverse.

In addition to printing this, I also used a Raspberry Pi with the Camera Module to capture a time lapse of the print as it was happening on my 3D printer.

To create the time lapse, I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero W with the Pi Camera library. If you’d like to see how this works, check out my post Raspberry Pi Time Lapse.

In this post I just wanted to celebrate Pi Day and provide some fun background facts.

I created a YouTube video of my time lapse for my 3D print:

Pi Math

The number “Pi” is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and is normally equated to about 3.14.

You see Pi in many areas of Math and Physics. The use of the Greek later π representing Pi was first recorded by William Jones in 1706 ( source wikipedia). The use of Pi as a number has been recorded across the ages, even back to ancient times.