I have bought, ASUS wl500 routers, they have usb ports so you can connect a pendrive and extend the file system with a pair of gigabytes ;) and they can run GNU/LINUX inside, so the file system is not a problem. Another advantage of the ASUS wl500 is that they have 32 MB of RAM and they are not very expensive. One thing I want to know are libfprint dependencies, I know that libusb is one of them but I don't know if requires more packages. regards Andrés
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:38 AM, NdK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andres Aguirre ha scritto: >> >> Hi, this is my first mail to the list, I'm new with libfprint but I >> want to share with the libfprint comunity a project that I will began >> to develop in a few days. >> The basic idea is to develop an embedded access control, to open a >> door validating with the finger print and registering the access in a >> log system. > > Quite a common idea, it seems :-) > *But* when you try to implement it, you find some not-so-small problems :-( > The first is, usually, the quite limited amount of storage available on such > boards (too small for complete libfprint+its dependencies). > So you'll have to choose "the right" scanner (usually not AES4000), or > limited RAM (often only 16MB). > >> I plan to use some of the routers that works with small linux >> distributions like open-wrt and use an usb fingerprint scanner with >> libfprint to do authentication. This routers today have USB ports and >> I have developed a generic USB I/O board for my degree project >> (http://www.fing.edu.uy/~pgusb) so I plan to use it in this project to >> interact with the outside world (display and magnetic door lock). >> I want to share this with you, and maybe some of you plan to do >> something similar and we can form some kind of task group to exchange >> and discuss design and implementation issues. > > I already bought two boards to experiment with. The most promising is Eddy > S2m/PIN that, with an available SD slot, doesn't limit too much filesystem > size. But I still have had no time to experiment with it. > RBT832 (the other board I bought) seems definitely not suited for the job. > > BYtE, > Diego. > > -- /\ndrés _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
