I am pretty new to building projects and such, so I was wondering if anyone can give me some pointers on how to get the ball rolling. First I was interested in using the AVR butterfly as the main board.
The basic idea for the project is that there would be an infrared security sensor and once its tripped I would need to input the fingerprint in the scanner to deactivate the alarm.
All the interface for all the finger print scanners are USB, and since the butterfly does not support that I was wondering if I would be able to use a USB-to-Serial Converter.
I am really new to this stuff, so if anyone can guide me through the steps and what to look out for I would appreciate it very much.
EDIT: I was also considering using a bar code scanner instead of a finger print scanner also