Build logs, field reports, and deep dives from the people building TrailCurrent. Real work, documented as it happens.
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Reservoir has its first stable firmware and a complete set of wiring diagrams. Three tanks, twelve sensors, one ribbon cable. It is also available in the web flasher.
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The Milepost 3D printed wall-mount enclosure is now on MakerWorld. Physical design is locked. Firmware is progressing fast with home, energy, water, and button screens all running, and OTA updates validated.
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Peregrine gets a pre-built image installer. Milepost ships configurable buttons and web OTA. Overlook adds zip deployment so the full system update story works with or without a cloud.
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Reservoir 1.0.0 is complete. Detail page, assembly guide, and the case is on Makerworld. Everything you need to build one is in one place.
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Full build guide for the offline voice assistant is live, and the two-piece case is on Makerworld. Bill of materials, drawings, print profile, and the assembly animation in one place.
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The Peregrine case is now live on Makerworld. Print it, drop the boards in, and you have an offline voice assistant ready to mount.
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Reservoir has its first stable firmware and a complete set of wiring diagrams. Three tanks, twelve sensors, one ribbon cable. Now available in the web flasher.
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Three modules ship their first stable firmware. Multi-device addressing, OTA updates, CAN bus discovery, and twelve pre-built binaries ready to flash from your browser.
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Torrent, Switchback, and Tapper now support multi-device addressing. Run up to three power modules and pair switch panels to any of them. The web flasher handles variant selection automatically.
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Milepost locks in the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7B with a 1024x600 dimmable display. A new detachable wall-mount case keeps the install clean.
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Tank level sensors are mounted and validated. Case design and connectors are in the final stretch — we expect to complete this module this week.
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The Headwaters case is now live on Makerworld, one click from your printer. Every other TrailCurrent case is next.
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Pick a module, pick a release, plug in USB, click flash. No toolchain, no command line. Works in any Chromium-based desktop browser.
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Bearing is the second module with a full build guide. Same format as Headwaters: BOM, dimensioned drawings, print settings, assembly. Every other module is next.
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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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Farwatch gets proximity-based rules for location-aware automation. A new repo, Reservoir, quietly joins the family.
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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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Low power, dual LAN, dual SIM, wall mount, barrel connector, four SMA antennas. Why the GL.iNet Spitz Plus is the recommended router for TrailCurrent — and a thank-you to GL.iNet for believing early.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peregrine (voice assistant) and Borealis (air quality) join the platform. Switchback ships its first Gerbers. And every repo gets renamed.
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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.
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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.
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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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