> Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize for his discovery that if a light hits a component and it generates a charge, it causes that component to reset.
Wait, what? Are they really saying here that Einstein got his Nobel Prize for discovering that light resets electronics? I recall being taught a different definition of photoelectric effect at school.
> Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton told the BBC the glitch was an "unintentional educational bonus".
Essentially, the component that regulates power to the CPU is a die-on-board package and due to the photoelectric effect certain types of high intensity ultraviolet are causing a voltage drop which crashes the board. Duct tape, as always, is a solution.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 22.2 ms ] threadWait, what? Are they really saying here that Einstein got his Nobel Prize for discovering that light resets electronics? I recall being taught a different definition of photoelectric effect at school.
> Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton told the BBC the glitch was an "unintentional educational bonus".
Got to give them points for humour.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-...
Essentially, the component that regulates power to the CPU is a die-on-board package and due to the photoelectric effect certain types of high intensity ultraviolet are causing a voltage drop which crashes the board. Duct tape, as always, is a solution.