TrailCurrent now has a home on Hackaday. The project page is live at hackaday.io/project/205540-trailcurrent-wilderness-wired, with the full architecture, the module list, and the first CAD uploads already in place. GitHub stays the source of truth for the code. Hackaday is where we will share the story of building it alongside the rest of the hardware community.
Why Hackaday, and why now
GitHub is a great place to host an open-source project. It is not a great place to discover one. You find repositories on GitHub after you already know what you are looking for. Hackaday is the opposite. People go there to browse, to stumble across something interesting, to see what other builders are working on this week. That is a different audience, and it is exactly the audience TrailCurrent is built for: engineers, makers, RV and trailer owners with a soldering iron and a PlatformIO install, people who want to see the insides of a project before they commit to using it.
Getting creator access also unlocks the project log format, which maps almost perfectly to what we already do here on this blog. Build logs, field reports, release notes. The same rhythm, a second audience.
What you will find on the page
The initial write-up covers the full platform. The three layers: ESP32 sensor and gateway modules on the CAN bus, the Headwaters edge gateway running MongoDB, Mosquitto, and an nginx-served PWA, and the optional Farwatch cloud for remote access. It lists every current module by role, from Torrent and Tapper for power and switching, through Bearing and Borealis for location and air quality, up to Peregrine for offline voice and Milepost for the in-vehicle display. The page also carries the FreeCAD source files for the cases we have printed so far, so anyone browsing can drop a 3D model into FreeCAD and start poking.
If you want the deep end, everything links back to the trailcurrentoss GitHub organization. If you want the tour, the Hackaday page is now the fastest way to get it in one scroll.
How we will use it alongside this blog
This blog stays the primary place where we publish. It is part of the website and part of the codebase, and it moves at our pace. Hackaday logs will be lighter touch. Short notes when a module hits a milestone, cross-links back to the long-form posts here, and occasional threads when a build decision is worth opening up for comments.
If you already follow along on GitHub or on the blog, nothing changes. If Hackaday is where you live, there is now a door in. Either way, same project, same MIT license, same principle: your vehicle, your data, your code.
Where to find it
The project page is at hackaday.io/project/205540-trailcurrent-wilderness-wired. Follow it there if you use Hackaday. Leave a comment, poke holes in the design, ask for a log on a specific module. We added the link to the Community page on this site too, so it is easy to find from here.
Huge thanks to the Hackaday team for the creator access. A small badge of trust goes a long way when you are a one-person project page trying to reach a big workshop.