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'Camera-shy' Raspberry Pi 2 suffers strange 'XENON DEATH FLASH' glitch

Herby

Kinda old news...

I remember working on a project in the mid 80's. One of the guys wanted to take a picture of the PC board we had. At the time we had the EPROMS covered in a white paper sticker. A flash on the camera glitched it. We changed to silvered stickers and the problem went away.

Lesson learned. Semiconductors are light sensitive. Thankfully the effect is transient, and after a reset all was well with the world.

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