I found a guy on Amazon selling replacement pre-programmed "Duemilanove only" chips pretty cheap. The part number seems to be the same as the one in my Uno. Would that chip work unmodified in the Uno, or would it have to be reprogrammed in order to work?
If they'll work "out of the box" I might pick up a few so I could migrate projects off the board easily.
They were going for a dollar each which was the cheapest I could find a 328p-pu on amazon. I have a 30$ gift card I got for Christmas for Amazon so I was planning on buying some Arduino stuff. Right now I just have the newsite uno r3 kit with the breadboard and wires but no components. I was considering the green box kit that's on amazon for $22.50 but it already has the breadboard and wires which I already have.
There are bargains to be found from time to time, in spite of James pessimism, but this one appears to not be one as if it's the same listing I found on Amazon for a $1 328p, has a rather interesting shipping charge:
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If it's a genuine chip you can put the Uno bootloader on it easily enough.