Posts tagged with “scanner”

Getting actual fingerprint data out of the FPC1020A scanner was way harder than I expected. After days of digging and reverse-engineering Android kernel drivers, I finally got it to scan! Now I can detect fingers and capture raw images—next stop: matching algorithms.

Finally got my hands on the FPC1020 fingerprint scanners! These things are tiny, SPI-based, and perfect for a built-in solution. I built test boards, hooked them up to a NodeMCU, and wrote a basic Arduino sketch to read the hardware ID. Next step: integrating with the main authenticator project!