Build Your Own: The Headwaters Page Is Live
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The first full build guide is live. Every part, every dimension, every print setting, every assembly step. Every other module is next.
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Headwaters Moves Into the Trailer
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Headwaters is now installed in the trailer and monitored live via Farwatch. Averaging 15W constant, it lives comfortably on 200W of solar and a 100Ah battery, never dropping below 75% even on cloudy days.
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Proximity Rules and a New Project
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Farwatch gets proximity-based rules for location-aware automation. A new repo, Reservoir, quietly joins the family.
Headwaters Moves Into the Trailer
· 3 min read
Headwaters is now installed in the trailer and monitored live via Farwatch. Averaging 15W constant, it lives comfortably on 200W of solar and a 100Ah battery, never dropping below 75% even on cloudy days.
The ESP-IDF Migration and Auto-Discovery
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Twelve firmware repos migrated from Arduino to ESP-IDF in a single week. Module auto-discovery lands across the bus. Node-RED comes out of the stack.
Goodbye Pi 5, Hello CM5
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Headwaters drops the Raspberry Pi 5 in favor of a CM5 on a Waveshare base with a Waveshare CAN hat. All off-the-shelf, broadly available, and an entire carrier board EDA deleted.
Plateau Learns to Level
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Plateau moves to an IMU-based leveling approach, Peregrine gets a new language model and real intents, and Borealis is ready for DIY manufacturing.
Two New Modules and a Rename
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Peregrine (voice assistant) and Borealis (air quality) join the platform. Switchback ships its first Gerbers. And every repo gets renamed.
Fireside Cuts the Cord
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Fireside trades wired CAN for WiFi + MQTT and becomes a real wall-mounted remote. Picket and Spotter pick up their first real firmware.
First Deployments, End to End
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WiFi credentials now travel over CAN, every firmware repo stops storing secrets, and the iOS PWA finally installs cleanly behind Let's Encrypt.
The Repositories Go Public
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21 TrailCurrent repositories land on GitHub under trailcurrentoss. Headwaters gets a proper first-run experience and Milepost lights up for the first time.
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