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The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2

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The bizarre story of how taking flash photos could instantly crash the Raspberry Pi 2, the community detective work that solved it, and why this strange bug revealed fundamental flaws in modern chip design.