I’m not sure what happened to this Pi zero, but, to use a Napoleon Dynamite word, there’s some “decroded” looking schmutz next to that heat sink…. Ewww!
@Dane oh no- it’s dead. I was more looking like a post-mortem. :)
@MookyTroubadour 🤣 I thought it looked dead, but I was being polite.
@MookyTroubadour Just remember, when the blue smoke comes out, you can never put it back.
@MookyTroubadour 🤔 Galvanic corrosion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion
🤔 try a piece of copper tape with conductive glue to electrically connect the heat sink to the chip?