ThinkPad modded with Black Magic Probe

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.

ThinkPad modded with Black Magic Probe

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