Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot

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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Re:Crap hardware, not surprising

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and a 80 dollar cellphone blows away rasp1 easy, has inbuilt screen, camera, cellular and wifi. what it lacks is GPIO and raspberry GPIO usability is kind of meh, you're still better off tying it with a 16mhz atmel to run your 3d printers steppers(bbb being a _lot_ better in this regard). not that it matters since 99% raspberry pi's are just used to try out linux.

where raspberry is sort of good is that you get ethernet for pretty cheap, as arduino ethernet shields tend to be expensive or other cheap stickmedia computers tend to not have it(though some android tv boxes do have it)

for a media box there's much better out of the box suited stuff in the 50+ range (which raspberry easily gets to if you count stuff like a remote control of some sort, wifi dongle and what have you..).

but really why people go with raspberry is the PERCEIVED OPENNESS of it, while in fact raspberry is just a shell project of broadcomm, by broadcomm people, to sell broadcomm chips(whilst the same people on the raspberry side are lobbying). so open source people flock to it for no really good reason and 99% of the projects that use it to run some hardware or such could just as well have been done with an arduino clone or two("real" arduino costs almost as much as a raspberry though so the bang per buck isn't too bad there

what it really gets down to is this: I BBB clones are hitting the market. arduino clones are on the market. raspberry pi? one clonemaker tried and now can't buy chips. chips that don't have open source drivers too, mind you.