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Friday 30 September 2016

Issue #172 - PIXEL

Hello there,

What. A. Week. Wow!

You may have noticed that Raspbian has had a facelift in the form of PIXEL, a brand new desktop environment that looks all sorts of beautiful. Hats off to the team responsible. They’re now all having a well-earned rest.

Also, after so many of you voted for your favourite projects, The MagPi Magazine issue 50 is now on sale, offering up the best of the best in our Top 50 Countdown.

We’ve two Picademy events still eligible for registration, so if you’re an educator, or know of one, make sure you spread the word.

Meanwhile, we’re in search of a videographer to join our merry gang at Pi Towers, Cambridge, UK.

Oh, and Eben won the T3 Outstanding Contribution award and spent the evening sitting with Johnny Ball. If you’re English, you’ll appreciate why this is so exciting. If you’re not, well… Johnny Ball is awesome, and that’s all you need to know.

Phew. Right… that’s enough for me. Time for a lie down.

Enjoy your week!

Peace,

Alex

  • PIXEL

    (raspberrypi.org) The new desktop environment for Raspbian
  • MagPi Magazine Issue 50

    (raspberrypi.org) Shiny content, beneath a very shiny cover...
  • Career Opportunity: Videographer

    (raspberrypi.workable.com) Join us at Pi Towers, Cambridge
  • Picademy Glasgow

    (raspberrypi.org) Register for Picademy Glasgow
  • Picademy USA

    (raspberrypi.org) Register for Picademy USA, Texas
  • Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire

    (barnesandnoble.com) Coming to Your Local Store, November 5th and 6th
  • T3 Awards 2016

    (t3.com) Eben Upton wins Outstanding Contribution Award
  • Pi-powered Mansfield Video Camera

    (raspberrypi.org) Super-awesome filtered fun
  • RetroPie in a NES Cartridge

    (raspberrypi.org) A stunning attempt at winning the Retropie award
  • Festive Light Show

    (youtube.com) Set your lights in time to music
  • Quality Control with Quality Street

    (travelswithmypi.wordpress.com)
    FYI, the green triangles are the best
  • Twitter Stories

    (twitter.com)
    Twitter followers share their Pi Stories in 140 characters or less
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    Facebook followers do the same... with a larger word count
  • Instagram Stories

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    Our Instagram followers share their own stories
  • Google+ Stories

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    And our Google+ followers get in on the action too

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