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ThinkPad modded with Black Magic Probe

oshparkoshpark wrote 09/21/2017 at 07:22 • 2 min read • Like

Zach Fredin of NeuroTinker designed this derivative of the Black Magic Probe to replace the fingerprint reader on his ThinkPad X220 laptop:

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TP-BMP

A PCB-layout-only remix of 1BitSquared/Black Sphere Technologies’ excellent Black Magic Probe v2.1. Designed to replace the fingerprint reader in the palm rest on some Thinkpads, because when have you _not_ needed an ARM debugger with a built-in UART port?
Runs stock firmware and grabs USB from the fingerprint reader’s FFC connector (well… +5VDC from the touchpad). Not tested on anything other than my X220 (but it seems to work!). Cable harnesses get stuffed in the o’l ExpressCard slot for storage.

https://hackaday.io/project/27272-tp-bmp

https://hackaday.io/project/27272-tp-bmp

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Dylan Brophy wrote 09/21/2017 at 12:54 point

I'm reading this on a Thinkpad T510 right now! Haha!  yea, the fingerprint reader has kinda bugged me.  This is an excellent idea.

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