Mission control for building Terrible Turtle Camp โ and an open-source gift to every camp on the playa.
Move Slow & Bite Things
Every year, camps reinvent the wheel โ how to build a kitchen, pack a truck, run a shower, feed 40 people in the dust, and hold a culture that actually lives the 10 Principles. The knowledge scatters when the playa clears.
Turtle Ops changes that. We're open-sourcing the entire build of Terrible Turtle Camp โ the playbooks, the packing lists, the prep runbooks, and a deployable Camp Assistant agent anyone can run on their own tools. Take it, fork it, make your camp better.
A gift to the Turtles, a gift to the playa, a gift to the world and beyond. ๐ข๐ฅ
Everything it takes to pop up a home in the desert. Each module becomes an open playbook.
Old trailer โ full camp kitchen. Prep systems, menus, food storage for the dust.
BuildingUsed box truck โ a turtle. Packed full + convenient for the Boulder โ BRC haul.
BuildingOur own water + greywater-conscious shower build. Leave No Trace.
PlannedPermissionless instruments + jams. The music tradition, on the playa.
PlannedCapturing camp voices, stories, and the build. Culture, documented.
PlannedWhere code becomes canvas โ an interactive AI experience gifted to passersby.
PlannedRest for the shell. Shade, sleep, and dust management for the crew.
PlannedLive inventory command center โ 200+ items tracked, searchable, with procurement status.
Live โCopy-paste run.md files to deploy your own Burning Man Camp Assistant โ on whatever tool you already use. A gift to the playa, shared openly on GitHub.
Coming here: one-click copy blocks for the Camp Assistant agent (instructions + knowledge base), plus a link to the open GitHub repo so any camp can fork it. The same agent you can talk to below.
A taste of the Camp Assistant, right here on the page. Ask about the build, the packing, the principles. (v1 โ a demo brain; full agent deploys via the kit above.)
Demo brain โ the full agent (with your camp's real data) deploys from the kit above.
Terrible Turtle Camp doesn't just follow the principles โ we build the whole camp around them.
Home base for the build โ and a restoration project in its own right. We're carving water terraces, planting drought-tolerant trees, and bringing native grasses back to life.
Leave No Trace isn't just for the playa. It's how we treat the land that hosts us. Earth-first, heart-first. ๐ข๐ฑ