Issue #80 — Desktop

Hi everyone

Here’s Issue #80 with a round-up for the Christmas week.

There’s a new Raspbian image revealing the hard work of Simon Long revamping the look and feel of the desktop experience.

Ben

Picture of the week

A view of the neater menu in the new Raspbian GUI developed by Simon Long

News

• 24/12 Raspbian Image (raspberrypi.org)
  The latest release of Raspbian features a whole new GUI
• Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on (raspberrypi.org)
  The Foundation's guide to getting started with your new Pi
• Christmas Lectures Sneak Peak (raspberrypi.org)
  Snippets from this year's Christmas Lectures featuring Raspberry Pi
• HiFiBerry Amp+ (hifiberry.com)
  High quality, highly efficient power amplifier for the Raspberry Pi

Projects

• Pi Homeguard (raspberrypi.org)
  Helping people stay independent longer
• Penguin Lifelines (raspberrypi.org)
  Monitoring temperatures and penguins in the antarctic
• Naughty or Nice (raspberrypi.org)
  Using picamera and OpenCV to detect whether you've been naughty or nice
• Glowing Twitter Beacon (rigb.org)
  Make a light that flashes each time a certain phrase is tweeted
• Hamster Fitness Tracker (blog.initialstate.com)
  Tutorial to turn your Raspberry Pi into a hamster fitness tracker

Articles & more

• Adafruit Capacitive Christmas Shenanigans (raspberrypi.org)
  Adafruit beta testing their capacitive touch HAT
• Best of open hardware in 2014 (opensource.com)
  Round-up of open hardware projects of 2014
• Summer tech projects for the holidays (smh.com.au)
  Summer tech projects for our Australian friends

Upcoming Events

• Exeter Raspberry Jam (UK) (3 January)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (5 January)
• Darlington Raspberry Jam (UK) (10 January)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam (UK) (10 January)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam 25 (UK) (17 January)
• Glasgow Raspberry Pi Day (UK) (17 January)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (UK) (17 December)
• Warwick Raspberry Jam (US) (19 January)
• Pi and More 6 (DE) (24 January)
• Egham Raspberry Jam (UK) (25 January)
• Stourbridge Raspberry Jam (UK) (31 January)
• Cache Valley Raspberry Jam (US) (31 January)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (31 January)
• Canberra Raspberry Pi (AU) (6 March)

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