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Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot

Posted by timothy on from the camera-shy dept.

An anonymous reader writes Unfortunately for Raspberry Pi 2 owners who are trying to photograph their devices, ... the Raspberry Pi 2 has been found to be Xenon flash sensitive. Any camera with a Xenon flash aimed at the device is causing the device to freeze for a few seconds before rebooting. The forum thread about the bug is an interesting play-by-play of how the problem was narrowed down.

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  1. Re:The new power supplies may be sensitve to EMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe the glorious eels didn't give a shit about your puny human flash, but your device was interfering with the meter.