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Dash-Chan 0.5.0 beta — Arcade Scout
Pre-release
Dash-Chan now looks and behaves like a tiny arcade scout: an expressive virtual pet with a radio notebook. This update keeps every Avatar Studio option and adds four colorful habitats, discovery cheers and two home views.
Open the web flasher and Avatar Studio · Field guide · Upload setup
- Recon + Buddy / Full Face: nearby clues stay beside the pet, or expand its expression across the display. Both show approximate saved Wi-Fi/BLE counts.
- Signal City, Sunset Run, Star Patrol, Pixel Garden: original animated environments, expressive eyebrows, highlights, paw pads, happy cheers and level-up sparks. Dark, Light, Matrix and BWM themes remain.
- Simple progression: one XP per eligible saved Wi-Fi discovery, one level per 25 XP, food only from wardriving. Every cosmetic is unlocked immediately.
- Hardware play: individual switches for RGB mood lights, tilt/gaze, head swipes, proximity greetings and ambient brightness; optional local NFC outfit cards. Camera and microphone remain unused.
- Companion website: simpler Install / Avatar Studio / Upload drives / Field guide navigation; live world and expression previews; a smiling one-antenna logo; updated real firmware screenshots.
- Uploads: browser WiGLE preview/send, WDGWars-compatible CSV export, and USB/SD configuration for manual or opt-in post-drive uploads from the robot over configured Wi-Fi. Verified HTTPS, retained original files, and per-file receipts for accepted or uncertain outcomes.
Installation uses split images and preserves NVS/calibration and SD files. Existing sound/voice settings remain unchanged. Official StackChan K151 only; 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and BLE, with UART GPS and FAT32 microSD.
Validation: firmware build, host parser/GPS/progression checks, 2,880 outfit combinations, browser layouts at 320/390/768/1440 pixels, actual web-flasher code on K151 with unchanged NVS, and physical USB setup/failure/cancel recovery. A separate 45-second stationary bench saved 104 rows and 19 Wi-Fi discoveries with zero additional queue drops. XP stopped after recording stopped.
This is a beta. Live WiGLE/WDGWars account acceptance, long uploads, NFC tag enrollment, sensor interaction tuning and long outdoor drives still need field validation. No real drive was uploaded during development. Radio clues are heuristic, not authenticated device identities. The M5Burner submission remains the separate earlier 0.4 factory image.