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TehCorwiztoday at 3:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

An early revision of the Raspberry Pi 2 would crash if you hit it with a bright light like a camera flash. Specifically a xenon flash.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=99167

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyptwlzRqaI


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mlyletoday at 5:20 AM

Yah, but that's a case of the package not being opaque enough.

russdilltoday at 5:46 AM

Completely unrelated and due to a design failure by the rpi folks.