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A phone we were developing could be made crash by taking a photo of it with a Xenon flash camera
by secondcoming 4y ago
A phone we were developing could be made crash by taking a photo of it with a Xenon flash camera
- eddyg 4y agoThe photoelectric effect (where metals emit electrons when hit by light); see https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...
- mnw21cam 4y agoYou don't even need that. Xenon flash tubes require quite a powerful surge of high voltage electricity, and it's common for them to emit considerable amounts of radio-frequency interference.
- lathiat 4y agoEEVBlog made a video demonstrating that and explaining it generally: https://youtu.be/SrDfRCi1UV0 https://youtu.be/SrDfRCi1UV0
- acadapter 4y agoThis happened to an earlier version of Raspberry Pi
- secondcoming 4y agoYes the phone used some of the same Broadcom chipset as the (original, I think) Raspberry Pi