[Cialug] atmega for what?

[Matthew Nuzum]

I was thinking about buying an atmega168 and experimenting with arduino
stuff. I went to ebay and searched for atmega and I see a bunch of nearly
identical items for sale. They look like a cpu card with a surface mount
atmega chip soldered onto it and some of the pins brought out to pads on the
far end. Most have a serial or usb port on them. It's not clear to me what
these could possibly be used for, but people must like them because there's
a bunch for sale. Some auctions say "storing passwords or other sensitive
information" and "many different computer applications."

Anyone know?

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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