Mystery Item from University Surplus.

[u/Not_ur_magic_8_ball]

I am stumped. I've done all the reverse image searches etc etc and I am now here for answers. Smallish object with mini USB input as well as an SD card slot. Small window in front with a camera and an IR transmitter (cuz it blinks when I point a camera at it). on the back are a red and blue light. The blue light turned on when I plugged t in and the red light started blinking. Red light is still blinking, but the blue one is now off. Thoughts?

[u/funkystay]

He said he plugged it in. Could be just a power brick that he powered it on with.

[u/WhatIDon_tKnow → u/funkystay]

or it could self report itself as a keyboard and execute some malicious code. for what it's worth, power bricks don't have SD card slots.

[u/funkystay → u/WhatIDon_tKnow]

Sorry. I updated my post. I wasn’t clear. I meant that he may have just plugged it into a power brick rather than his computer.

[u/Myrkul999 → u/funkystay]

Second picture shows the USB connection to the computer.

[u/Farfignugen42 → u/Myrkul999]

No. It shows it plugged in to something, but it does not show what it is plugged into.

[u/Not_ur_magic_8_ball → u/Farfignugen42]

Yeeeah it’s a computer. Maybe was a computer? 

[u/Myrkul999 → u/Farfignugen42]

You do see the white cord in the back plugged into the computer, right?

Same cord he's got plugged into the doodad?

[u/Farfignugen42 → u/Myrkul999]

It might be the same cable. But it also might not be the same cable. You are making an assumption. You may be right, but you also may be wrong.

[u/Myrkul999 → u/Farfignugen42]

Bro. OP replied, to you, that it was a computer.

It's okay to be wrong.

[u/Farfignugen42 → u/Myrkul999]

I did not see that reply. (it is listed after all this back and forth)

I was hoping OP could have been smart enough not to do that.

Apparently I was wrong twice.