[TriLUG] Raspberry Pi 2 is 'camera shy'

R Radford rradford at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 9 11:56:31 EST 2015


Sorry for the wide distribution, but the Raspberry Pi crosses several
interest groups, so passing this out in case you have a new Raspberry Pi 2.

It seems it is camera shy - taking a photo of it with a flash will cause it
to reboot.

It seems one of the components is sensitive to the bright light of a flash,
so future boards will have a piece of tape or something else covering it -
but that doesn't help those who already have their boards.

Fortunately it does not seem to damage the board, but I would not take
chances.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/08/raspberry_pi_2_camera_flash_glitch/


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