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Mandoputer firmware v1.1.2: Target Computer, Motion Tracker and per-mode colors

Two new display modes, Target Computer and Motion Tracker, and every mode now keeps its own colors, with a Reset row to get the factory look back.

Mandoputer firmware v1.1.2: Target Computer, Motion Tracker and per-mode colors

Firmware v1.1.2 for the Mandoputer is now available. Two new screens, and every mode now keeps its own colors.

v1.1.2 — 2026-09-22

Highlights

Two new display modes join the cycle right after Vitals: a Target Computer whose range runs down while the target bars close to a lock, and a Motion Tracker that sends out pulses while a contact steps closer. Colors are now saved per mode, so your Scanner can be cyan while Vitals stays red.

Animated preview of Mandoputer Target Computer mode showing a yellow wireframe trench rushing toward a vanishing point, two red bars closing toward the center, and a range counter running down
Target Computer: the range runs down while the target bars close to a lock.
Animated preview of Mandoputer Motion Tracker mode showing a blue half-dome of range arcs with an expanding pulse, a glowing contact stepping closer, and a red range readout set into a solid blue band
Motion Tracker: pulses go out while a contact steps closer.

Changes

  • Feature: Target Computer (mode 08). Yellow wireframe with red target bars out of the box. Runs a full ten-second approach and lock.
  • Feature: Motion Tracker (mode 09). Blue arcs with a red contact out of the box. Range counts down in the unit's own digit glyphs.
  • Feature: Per-mode colors. The Colors menu now edits the mode you opened it from, and shows that mode's name under the title. Each mode remembers its own Primary, Secondary and Accent.
  • Feature: Reset row. The Colors menu has a new RESET row that puts the current mode back to its factory colors without touching any other mode.
  • Feature: Factory looks. Until now every mode shipped all red. Each mode now has its own factory colors: Scanner, Targeting and Vitals get their own sets, most others pick up a blue Secondary, and Glyph Loop stays all red. The full table is in the owner's manual.
  • Feature: Bounties works without a card. Two sample dossiers now ship inside the firmware. Put your own images on a microSD card and they replace the samples.
  • Feature: Improved USB installer. The installer now shows a disclaimer you accept with Y, names the unit it found (chip and port), and asks again before it erases anything. It installs only to the unit it identified.

Upgrade notes

  • If you changed your colors before this update, every mode you already had keeps that theme, and the two new modes arrive in their own colors. Use RESET in a mode's Colors menu to see its new factory look.
  • If you never changed your colors, every mode except Glyph Loop will look different after the update. That is the new factory look, not a fault.
  • The mode cycle gains two stops between Vitals and Bounties. Gestures are unchanged.
  • The SD-card update keeps your saved settings. The USB installer erases them, as it always has.

How to install

  1. Log in at foxheadworkshop.com/account and open your Mandoputer order.
  2. Download firmware.bin (or the installer zip if you don't have an SD card on hand).
  3. Save firmware.bin to the root of a microSD card (not included; any card formatted FAT32 works).
  4. Insert the card, power the unit on, then press RESET (with the screen facing you, RESET is the button on the left side of the board; BOOT is on the right). A cold power-on can miss the card; the reset runs the check with the card ready.
  5. Single-press BOOT when the update prompt appears.

Step-by-step instructions are in the owner's manual under Updating Firmware.

Verified on

  • Hardware: Waveshare ESP32-C6 LCD 1.3 USB
  • USB installer: this release's installer.
  • SD-card update: from v0.1.12, using a 32 GB microSD card formatted FAT32.
  • Modes: all eleven cycled on the unit; Bounties with and without a card; Target Computer and Motion Tracker; Colors menu.