Fingerprint sensor
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Fingerprint sensor
Hi i bout this sensor for one of my projects i flowed the instructions on how to make it work from adafruits site but its doing something that it shouldn't do when i plug the 5 v and the ground in the sensor lights up for 1 sec and turns of and it docent light up the program also docent recognizes the sensor i have a feeling that the sensor is broken.?
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Re: Fingerprint sensor
Some of the units ship with a different baud rate. Try changing the baud rate in the sketch to 9600.
Have you tested it with the SFGDemo utility? That checks a bunch of different rates and reports the speed that it connected at.
Have you tested it with the SFGDemo utility? That checks a bunch of different rates and reports the speed that it connected at.
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Re: Fingerprint sensor
where can i download the SFGDemo utility from?
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Re: Fingerprint sensor
btw the rate that you provided me is 9600 in the program.?
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Re: Fingerprint sensor
It's linked from the 'Downloads' page of the Fingerprint Sensor Tutorial, but here's a copy for convenience:veloxid wrote:where can i download the SFGDemo utility from?
http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/SFGDemoV2.0.rar
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