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title: "Pebble Developer Retreat 2014 Recap"
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# Pebble Developer Retreat 2014 Recap

Source: https://developer.repebble.com/blog/2014/11/08/Pebble-Developer-Retreat-2014-Recap/

This is the Pebble Developer Blog. For general Pebble news and announcements, visit the main blog at [repebble.com/blog](https://repebble.com/blog).

- 08 November 2014
- [Katherine McAuliffe](https://developer.repebble.com/blog/authors/katherine/)
- [Freshly Baked](https://developer.repebble.com/blog/tags/freshly-baked/)
- [Comments](https://developer.repebble.com/blog/2014/11/08/Pebble-Developer-Retreat-2014-Recap.md#comments)

Can you believe it's already been a month since the developer retreat? This blog post is long overdue but it was waiting for some very important content so that I could share some highlights from the retreat! I asked the retreat attendees what their favorite presentations/parts of the retreat were and I think these represent some of the best. If you don't agree, then tell me in the comments!

Check out the [full developer retreat recap](https://developer.repebble.com/community/events/developer-retreat-2014.md) broken down day by day in the community section of our new developer website! We're still working on a video montage of the robotics competition so that should be on the website soon! For even more detail on what this awesome group of 100 developers from around the world got up to check out our [full schedule](https://developer.repebble.com/community/events/developer-retreat-2014/detailed-schedule.md).

## Retreat Highlights

### Advanced Techniques: Graphics

Heiko Behrens and Matthew Hungerford talk about advanced programming techniques for Pebble. This was a series of three presentations wrapped up into one but the videos are in three parts. This talk focused on graphics techniques including run-time dithering, offline dithering, pixel manipulations, and frame-buffer drawing.

This talk featured the amiga boing ball dithering demo.

[Presentation on SlideShare](http://www.slideshare.net/pebbledev/pebble-dev-retreat2014graphics)
### Battery Life

Stuart Harrell, software engineer at Pebble, gives a talk about battery life and how to preserve it. This talk explains the effect of different system functions on battery life and discusses solutions to common battery life problems with apps.

[Presentation on SlideShare](http://www.slideshare.net/pebbledev/pebble-devretreat2014-battery)

### Computer History Museum Photo Booth

[Photo Booth Photos on Google+](https://plus.google.com/photos/118265358803224468726/albums/6070990535833345361)

### Awards

###### Most \<3 watchapp in appstore

Robert Hesse for [Smartwatch+](https://apps.getpebble.com/applications/52f0573d1ac7949119001518)

###### Most \<3 watchface in appstore

Daniel Rodríguez Ríncon for [YWeather](https://apps.getpebble.com/applications/52cc44e045ffdd31dd000180)

###### Rocks the Pebble Forums

Jon Barlow ([orviwan](https://forums.getpebble.com/profile/7316/orviwan))

###### Robot Masterminds

Winning Team: The Keggers (KEG, FlutterBot, Footbot) ![](https://developer.repebble.com/assets/images/community/events/developer-retreat-2014/robotwinners.png)

##### Best Developer Retreat Hack

Eric Oesterle for PEBBLE PEBBLE DISCO for PEBBLE ![](https://developer.repebble.com/assets/images/community/events/developer-retreat-2014/erichat.png)

###### The Pebble Developer Experience team certainly had ourselves a great time and we hope to see you next year!

![](https://developer.repebble.com/assets/images/community/events/developer-retreat-2014/devexpteam.png)

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