PI//PLACE is a persistent public collaborative pixel canvas running 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. Everyone shares the same board, and there are no accounts, seasons or intentional resets.
PI//PLACE is one continuously evolving public canvas. Every visitor sees the same board, and every accepted pixel becomes part of the shared image.
Open the canvas, choose a color and find the location you want to change.
Your pixel is sent to the Raspberry Pi and broadcast to everyone currently connected.
The canvas persists instead of starting a new season or automatically resetting.
Everything you probably wanted to know about the experiment, the canvas and the Raspberry Pi unfortunate enough to host it.
PI//PLACE is a public collaborative pixel canvas where everyone modifies the same shared image.
The canvas is intended to remain online continuously rather than operating in temporary rounds or seasons.
There are no intentional seasonal resets. The idea is that one canvas keeps evolving over time.
This is still a hobby experiment running on real hardware, so catastrophic hardware failure is technically a more convincing argument than a marketing promise.
No. Open the canvas and start placing pixels directly in your browser.
Because running it on significantly more appropriate hardware would answer far fewer interesting questions.
The backend runs on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with four Cortex-A53 CPU cores, roughly 1 GB of RAM and 100 Mbit Ethernet.
Yes. CPU usage, memory, temperature, system load, uptime, connected users and total pixel placements are read from the running system.
If the Pi or telemetry endpoint stops responding, the dashboard changes to THE PI HAS FALLEN.
Yes. The Pi Suffering Archive keeps historical telemetry for CPU usage, temperature, memory, load, connected users and more.
PI//PLACE uses a placement cooldown so a single client cannot instantly flood the entire canvas.
The current remaining cooldown is displayed directly inside the canvas interface.
No. PI//PLACE is an independent collaborative pixel-canvas experiment and is not affiliated with Reddit or r/place.