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

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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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