09-02-2015 13:30 via feeds.theguardian.com

Raspberry Pi 2 is camera shy: flash causes mini-computer to switch off

New faster Raspberry Pi 2 sensitive to Xenon camera flashes due to a weakness in one of the power-supply chips on the exposed boardThe new, more powerful Raspberry Pi 2 credit card-sized computer has a small and rather surprising flaw: flashes of light will cause it to spontaneously crash and power off.
The curious issue was first spotted by the self-proclaimed “discoverer of the Pi2 xenon death flash” and Raspberry Pi 2 user PeterO, who posted his discovery on the Raspberry Pi Foundation�
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