Digits of $\pi$ in other bases?

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Pi day got me interested in thinking about whether $\pi$ is a normal number - one whose digits are uniformly distributed no matter what base the number is written in. The OEIS sequence for $\pi$ in base 11 only has a hundred or so digits, and they do not look uniform at all (e.g., 5 shows up almost three times as often as 4 does).

I wrote some crummy R code this morning to generate digits of pi in base 11, and it worked until floating point arithmetic started causing problems, so my numbers disagree with OEIS after about the 13th decimal place. (As an interesting aside, my 300 or so incorrect digits of $\pi$ in base 11 do look uniform.)

My question is, are many digits of $\pi$ in other bases stored somewhere online? I need to look at many more than just a hundred. If not, has any work been done on finding an algorithm that could calculate the digits correctly? Where would I start looking up this sort of stuff?

Thanks!