A lot of folks celebrate this momentous occasion with a slice of pie, sweet or savory, but Pi Day is a wonderful excuse to immerse yourself in a cool tech project with none other than the Raspberry Pi. If you haven't heard of the Raspberry Pi, it's a tiny computer you can program to do a variety of tasks, like playing retro console games or making music. People of all ages have loved toying with it for years now, so we've dug up some beginner-friendly projects to introduce you to the magic you can create with a Raspberry Pi. Before you venture off to tinker with your new gadget, make sure to set it up with an operating system--then read on. This Raspberry Pi case looks just like the Nintendo Entertainment System console from the late 20th century.

While that sounds like a weird way to celebrate Pi Day (although, who doesn't start singing at the very thought of pie?), there's a reason this is an appropriate homage. To make this song, Amadeus Code, the A.I.-fueled songwriting assistant that takes data from centuries of music to help songwriters create their own compositions, took Don McLean's 1972 classic "American Pie" and transformed it into an original, yet somewhat recognizable tune. They slowed down the beats per minute, extended the notes, and tapped into some of the 99,750 1,619,558 (exponent 1,619,558) combinations of melodies that Amadeus Code AI is capable of creating. The result is something that could easily work on, say, a sport deodorant commercial or at the next Eurovision. One thing you may notice in the song is the severe lack of lyrics.

This pi day, we can write down more digits of the famous irrational number than ever before. An extra 9 trillion digits after the decimal point have been discovered, smashing the previous world record set back in 2013. In November, after 105 days of round the clock computation, pi enthusiast Peter Trueb's computer finally calculated 22,459,157,718,361 fully verified digits of pi. "I was really surprised that it worked so smoothly, I was so happy," says Trueb, who is an R&D scientist by day. Trueb realised that breaking the pi world record required two things: fast computation and fast storage.