A hardware enthusiast has stumbled on a curious vulnerability in the recently released next-generation Raspberry Pi computer: it crashes when exposed to certain types of flash photography and lights.
The bug in the Raspberry Pi 2 was documented over the weekend in a post in the Raspberry Pi Foundation forums and Monday in a blog post by the same nonprofit organization. The discovery was triggered when forum veteran Peter Onion snapped a photo of his new Raspberry Pi 2. Each time he activated the shutter, the tiny computer instantly shut down.
“I’ve done it three times now and same thing happens each time,” he reported. “First two times I didn’t realise what had happened as I wasn’t looking at the screen at the time and only noticed a few minutes afterwards. Third time I did it just to watch the screen…. Instant power off…..”
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