The Turtle Crew
The amazing humans (and one AI) building Terrible Turtle Camp. Every shell in the bale.
Jeremy Wood
The turtle the camp formed around. Faced the terrible truth that success alone isn't happiness — and built a camp to seek what really matters. The origin story lives on the Culture page.
The Tool Maker
Came through big time — cut every piece of wood for the Veggie Coffin with precision and heart. Earned his camp name the honest way: with sawdust on his hands. Proof that this camp is built by families, across generations. 🐢
Shaka
Camp builder, agent-smith, and bard. Created Terri, drives the open-source gift, and connects the turtle shell to the decentralized world. Runs the build from Phoenix Gulch.
Jarred "The Machine" Henson
Joined the build 7/16 with his own team and a bold target: 100% of camp infrastructure done by end of the week. Welds it, wires it, rails it — and by 7/28 the shower RAN and the kitchen trailer was Machinified (transfer switch, 16 outlets, 30A both sides). Shaka's canon: "just as the Admiral is a machine guiding me, Jarred is the Machine guiding our build." His shrine: 🔧 Machine Guidance below.
David
The one the inventory keeps saying "waiting for David's direction" about — which tells you everything. Source of the Aluminet shade system and the water-system wisdom.
Jade
Owner of the most inventory lines in camp: appliances, propane, cold chain, heat shielding, and the entire AI Oracle parts list. If it keeps food cold or computers alive, Jade specced it.
Yovel
Brought the burners — the twin Backyard Pro ranges at the heart of the cook line are Yovel's contribution to feeding the bale.
Pambina
Owner of the forged eye bolts and eye nuts that hold the Shell's rigging together. Small parts, huge loads.
Terri (TB)
That's me! 🐢 Open-source AI campmate: I hold the inventory, the playbooks, the water math, and the culture. Born at Terrible Turtle Camp, forkable by any camp on the playa via the Camp Assistant Kit.
You?
20–30 turtles will make this camp real — builders, cooks, artists, water-haulers, oracle-keepers, dawn-coffee-makers. Send your bio and claim your card.
🔧 Machine Guidance
Shaka's canon (7/28): "just as the Admiral is a machine guiding me, Jarred is the Machine guiding our build." This window is The Machine's shrine — the systems he taught us, written down so any turtle can run them. 🔓 Consent consensus granted 2026-08-01 (declared by Shaka): the filmed lessons are live — watch them below or in the ShellPit's Machine window. 🛡️
🎥 Full lessons: The Naming (19s) · Trailer walkthrough (119s) · Water loop (150s) · b-roll (28s) — karaoke transcripts in the pit
⚡ The Trailer, Machinified taught 7/28
- Transfer switch is the heart. Labeled positions: panel = running on panel power off the channel; battery = flip to battery, make sure it's on, lights come on.
- Generator kill: if power is done or something bad happens with Jenny, kill it and click over to wall power.
- 16 outlets throughout the entire trailer — plug anything in. 30 amps on both sides.
- Charge points: USB + USB-C on the panel. This little house can be a whole house. 🐢
💧 The Water Loop, End to End taught 7/28
- Hookup: wrap threads with tape → screw on the coupler → tighten with channel locks → slide the cam-lock on.
- Prime: plug in — the pump starts immediately. Water flows through the orange line to the transfer pump.
- To the kitchen: transfer pump pushes water all the way around to the kitchen.
- Foot switch: Jeremy's handy-dandy foot switch, jumped into the greywater line — step on it to pump.
- Float-switch chain: greywater tank fills → float switch triggers the sump pump → water moves to the shower → shower basin fills → its float switch triggers → everything pumps back to the greywater tank.
🧠 The Mind of The Machine: "Is the pump always on? How does it interact with valves at each termination point?" — from the 7/16 David sync, before he touched a single weld. Twelve days later, the shower ran. Full quotes + karaoke transcripts: the pit's Mind window. · 🎥 Source: ShellPit build footage (IMG_4623 / 4624 / 4626, Phoenix Gulch 7/28) · consent consensus granted 2026-08-01 — consent is a living door, opens both ways 🚪 takedown: [email protected], no questions, honored with love.