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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: Blond183 on Sat, 09 May 2020, 20:26:11

Title: Fingerprint Reader Custom Keyboard
Post by: Blond183 on Sat, 09 May 2020, 20:26:11

 Has anyone ever seen or heard of someone including a fingerprint reader in their custom keyboard build? If so could anyone point me in the right direction on how I might be able to include one, I am working on an idea for a personal build and am going to try and incorporate it.

I am currently trying to learn basic electronics and PCB design also so this whole project will probably take me a year or longer to complete.  If and when I do complete it though I may be interested in running a group buy for it assuming I can get it all to work together.

Title: Re: Fingerprint Reader Custom Keyboard
Post by: Tom_Kazansky on Mon, 11 May 2020, 03:55:02

the only board has this feature that I know is the Varmilo MA104-A (http://)

I also have the idea of including this in my keyboard but I cannot find any appropriate fingerprint readers. (also the price for individual piece is too high)

another work-around that I can think of is to integrate an usb-passthrough in my keyboard and plug a separate usb-fingerprint reader into it.