[TriLUG] Raspberry Pi 2 is 'camera shy'

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The real question is — if you got as RasPi2, where did you get it from? Unless you were one of the people that immediately went to element14…

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> On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:56, R Radford <rradford at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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