πŸ”§ Machine Guidance

The instruction films of Jared “The Machine” Henson β€” direct from Phoenix Gulch, given with aloha.
🎁 This page is a gift to The Machine

Jared saved our asses. When a bunch of computer nerds fail, you bring in the experts β€” and he didn’t just fix our trailer, our water, our power. He taught it, patiently, on camera, so the knowledge could travel.

Every film below is his gift, given freely at the Gulch. We built this page so the whole playa β€” and every camp that forks us β€” can learn from The Machine the way we did: one clear lesson at a time.

Mahalo nui loa, Jared. πŸ”§β€οΈπŸ’
β€” Terrible Turtle Camp Β· Burning Man 2026

Shaka’s canon (2026-08-01): “these REALLY important instruction videos from Jared should be the feature film.” So: the big screen for the lessons, karaoke transcript below. Every film is a real system any camp can copy. πŸ”‡ Silence canon stands β€” no soundtrack but the build itself.

πŸ›‘οΈ consent consensus granted 2026-08-01 Β· takedown: [email protected], no questions, honored with love Β· contribute: [email protected] Β· aloha: [email protected] πŸ¦€
FEATURE 1 Β· THE OPENER

🏷️ The Naming β€” and the shower RUNS

2026-07-28 Β· 19.5s Β· Phoenix Gulch

Nineteen seconds of pure victory: water flowing through the shower The Machine plumbed β€” and the moment the camp gave him his name.

"When a bunch of computer nerds fail, you just bring in the experts like Jared the Machine."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:00Whoa! We stay clean!
0:03Look at that! Woo!
0:05That's a shower right there.
0:07Alright, when a bunch of computer nerds fail, you just bring in the experts like Jared the machine.
0:13Let's go!
FEATURE 2 Β· ELECTRICAL

⚑ The Trailer, Machinified

2026-07-28 Β· 118.7s

The electrical walkthrough: transfer switch (panel ↔ battery, generator kill), 16 outlets, 30A on both sides, USB/USB-C charge points.

"The machine turned the trailer into a machine."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:00I did what did I what?
0:02I see the inside
0:05Whoa
0:11Power everywhere
0:13And this is a custom
0:26This thing's been machinified
0:30The machine turned the trailer into a machine
0:37If we let's say power is done you don't want to use genny anymore, whatever something bad happens we can kill that
0:43Click over and now we're running on the wall power what?
0:50what I
0:52Might need you to show me that again real slow
0:56So I'm gonna click this so under here if you look that's on panel it's labeled
1:01When it's on panel, it's running on panel power off of the channel. Okay, if you're running on
1:07Battery, let's turn it to battery make sure this is on you'll see the lights come on here
1:12And it works okay now what's cool is you can charge here
1:17To phone or you USB or C but also you have
1:2316 outlets throughout this entire trailer that you can plug anything into
1:28We've got 30 amps on both sides
1:32Oh
1:34And this can be a whole house and he's right here whole house
1:38Our
1:43Well, this little house a lot of turtles in the desert a lot of turtles turtles everywhere turtles everywhere
1:54Thank you machine
FEATURE 3 Β· WATER

πŸ’§ The Water Loop, taught end to end

2026-07-28 Β· 150.2s Β· feat. Victor ("Victory!")

The complete greywater loop in one take: IBC coupler β†’ cam-lock β†’ transfer pump β†’ kitchen β†’ Jeremy's foot switch β†’ float switches β†’ sump β†’ shower basin β†’ greywater tank. Loop closed. ♻️

"Really appreciate you, Machine!" β€” "What's your name again?" β€” "Victor!" β€” "Victory!"
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:00So in the event that Jeremy gets back and is really excited and wants to hook the water
0:05up and test everything, here's what we're going to do.
0:10All you need is these two things and this coupler.
0:18Our goal is to be like this at the end.
0:22Okay, so all we're going to do is, oh they already have the other one.
0:28We're going to wrap the threads on the black part here with this tape and then
0:35you're just going to screw this on to the threads. Use these channel locks to tighten it
0:41and then once that's on, we're going to take this cam-lock and slide it right on like this.
0:57That's all set. The last piece of the puzzle will be plugging in this.
1:16Plug this in. You can hear the pump start. The pump immediately turns on.
1:21And then what will happen is, we'll pump the water through this orange line.
1:28We'll go to our transfer pump. From the transfer pump, it's going to pump all the way around to the kitchen.
1:34Once it's pumped to the kitchen, we come into Jeremy's handy-dandy foot switch,
1:44which I have just jumped into the greywater line. You can step on the foot switch.
1:50It'll pump it into the greywater. It'll fill the greywater tank up until it hits the float switch.
1:57The sump pump will get activated. Then it'll pump the water from there into the shower.
2:03Once that fills up, that float switch will get activated and then it'll pump all the water
2:09from the shower basin into our greywater tank.
2:16I have slow comprehensions. That's why I recorded that, but really appreciate you machine!
2:21What's your name again? Victor! Victory!
FEATURE 4 Β· TOWING Β· THE MASTERCLASS BEGINS

πŸͺ The Hitch Lesson

2026-08-01 (party-eve) Β· 2m 7s Β· "We got The Machine leading the team"

Hitch assembly, taught properly: replacement block, lower the support plate, the clip that hooks the arm to the ball, security chains CROSSED (state law β€” they catch it if it falls), electrical in, crank down, drive. Then the full reassembly, lock one, lock two. The exact skill the box truck needs to tow the kitchen trailer.

"State law requires they are crossed β€” that's why they're crossed."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:02We got the machine
0:05Leading the team. All right, so we're gonna start with our hitch. Okay, so
0:13We're gonna build a
0:16replacement block
0:17but in order to
0:19Drop this you got it lower this support plate all the way down to your block
0:27Lift a clip right here this clip hooks the arm
0:34To the ball itself
0:36You've got to take off
0:39the security chains here
0:43And on the other side
0:45State law does require that they are crossed that's why they're crossed. Okay, so state law requires them to be crossed
0:53And
0:54Disconnect your now that the electrical
1:00Securities chains and the clip is off
1:04Now is the time that you'll be able to take this and start cranking this all the way down
1:09Not gonna do it for the sake of right now, but the next move
1:12After you crank it all the way down and there is airspace between the bottom of
1:17This hitch and the ball the truck can then drive forward
1:23All right, so I'm actually gonna set it up as if we just put the trailer on to the hitch
1:29Right we're gonna close this clip
1:32Take security lock one from your left side
1:38Security lock two go to the other side
1:42reason being
1:43That the theory is that this thing falls these chains would catch it. That's why they're crossed
1:51That's locked take your luck your power come on over here
1:55Push it on in there and we are ready to drive
2:00All right, and that is our hitch assembly hitch assembled
FEATURE 5 Β· POWER I

πŸ”Œ The Solar Generator Lesson

2026-08-01 (party-eve) Β· 6m 55s

The Anker SOLIX power station meets the trailer: the trailer-to-generator attachment cable, the 4-prong transfer switch, panel power vs battery, main switches β€” and live troubleshooting, because "this is why we troubleshoot."

"So this is our solar generator… this generator is going to run this panel."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:02battery. Just for the sake of demonstration.
0:07Oh, God!
0:26That worked for demonstration.
0:28Oh, okay.
0:31We got to kind of set up a little bit.
0:35You want to just film it?
0:36Yep.
0:37So this is our solar generator.
0:40This is the ANGER and KER Solix.
0:44This generator is going to run this panel.
0:49We're going to go through the process of hooking that up right now.
0:53In addition to that, we have backup power here that's run off of the wall battery.
0:57We're going to go through that whole operation.
0:59But first we want to make sure that we understand how to hook up our solar generator.
1:04So, let's get this outside.
1:09It's hurt.
1:14How do you see this waterproof?
1:31Generators?
1:32Yeah.
1:33I believe so.
1:34Most of them from the stand in the elevator pretty well.
1:38Alright.
1:39So, we're grabbing this cable right here.
1:51This is our trailer to generator attachment cable.
1:57Okay?
1:58So, come around here.
2:00This is our transfer switch to our trailer.
2:05You can see it's got a four-prong.
2:09Four-prong.
2:11All you do is get it into where it goes.
2:14Push it in.
2:16Twist it.
2:18This could stay on for the entirety of camp.
2:22Okay.
2:23You have two ways to hook this up.
2:25Actually, one way to hook this one up.
2:27So, this specific cord is for the anchor.
2:32On the side here, if you look, it's got a 30 amp max.
2:40We got to turn this on.
2:46Pull that down to turn it on.
2:48Looks like it's thinking.
2:5136%, which is good.
2:53Take that.
2:55Plug our 30 amp in.
2:57And as of right now, when we go inside, that's going to have power.
3:02So, let's go find out.
3:04Here.
3:06Come to our panel.
3:09This is our panel.
3:10Inside our panel, it has all of our breakers.
3:13Okay?
3:14If I turn them all off, we have no power.
3:19Just like a house.
3:21Down here, this is pretty important.
3:23So, swing down low enough that you can see this.
3:25This is a battery setting.
3:27This is panel.
3:28When it's plugged into the generator, have it click to power.
3:31That allows our lights and turn this little switch right here off.
3:36Because we don't need the battery right now.
3:38So, now it's on panel power.
3:40It has no power.
3:41What do you have with this panel?
3:42Turn that off.
3:43We want to have this off unless we need it for backup.
3:46Okay.
3:47You may not ever use it on the trip.
3:49Okay?
3:50Now we're going to use your main switches.
3:52Now, you've got power.
3:54If we leave all of these on, we can close it.
3:59We don't have to touch that hardly ever unless you can trip a breaker.
4:02All on.
4:03If I now, because it's all on, we should if we've got power at the panel.
4:08Or power from the, oh, yeah, we should have power there.
4:12But we don't have power there.
4:13I don't know why.
4:16This is why we troubleshoot.
4:18Oh, let's see.
4:19Are the lights on?
4:25Can you take a look?
4:26No.
4:30Oh, now they are.
4:31What did you do?
4:32So right here, on this specific generator, you guys got to push the AC outlet button.
4:39So you turn the main switch first, then the AC outlet button.
4:43Okay.
4:44And then everything works.
4:45Now, come in here.
4:49We have power.
4:51Literally everywhere.
4:52Nice.
4:53So we have lights across the top that are controlled by our switch.
4:56We have green light here on our GFCI at our sink.
5:02That's how you know.
5:04This gets wet.
5:05It'll click.
5:06That's like a reset.
5:08There.
5:09Go off.
5:10This, this receptacle is tied to this one.
5:14In case one of these two get wet because they're close to a water source.
5:18Okay.
5:19Okay.
5:20Everything else is on right now.
5:23Now, this receptacle, that receptacle, this receptacle here, and this receptacle are all
5:31tied to 15 amps.
5:35We need to label this one, the one at the end, and this one at the end because these are
5:4320 amp receptacles.
5:46You can see it has a little dash on the, on the face.
5:49The reason that matters is because that's what we plug a refrigerator into.
5:55That can handle the load of all three refrigerators.
5:58The 15s probably can, but these ones absolutely can't.
6:03Can you say that again?
6:04No.
6:05The three refrigerators should be plugged into one of the three 20 amp receptacles that
6:11we have here.
6:12These ones control higher power.
6:13All right.
6:14Two.
6:15And three.
6:16You can tell if they're there because you can see the power.
6:17Can all three be plugged into that one?
6:18No.
6:19Ideally, it would be two and one.
6:22Two here.
6:23Two and one.
6:24And one over there.
6:25Just separate them.
6:26Just don't put all three on one.
6:27Don't put all three.
6:28It doesn't matter what the configuration is.
6:30So one can, two, or two there and one there.
6:32Two can go there, one there, two there over there.
6:34I'd probably do two there, one there.
6:35It depends on if they go across the back wall or they go here.
6:38But either way, that all is functional.
6:40Okay.
6:41Cool.
6:42That right there is how you get power to the trailer.
6:47Using the ANPR, your anchor system.
6:51Okay.
6:52You can kill that one.
6:54Okay.
FEATURE 6 Β· POWER II

πŸ”Œ Three Ways to Power the Trailer

2026-08-01 (party-eve) Β· 2m 42s

Fallbacks mastered: the Predator gas generator (four-prong twist-lock, red receptacle) and the cable labeled in tape "David power to kitchen" β€” the camp grid: 70A split into four duplex boxes, straight off a regular plug.

"You just start it and plug it in. It's ready to go."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:00Okay, so if we let's say we lose power on this we haven't charged it we need to use the gas predator generator
0:07Well, you can turn this guy off here. Click. It's off green light on the main
0:16transfer switches off
0:18This can live pretty much with this generator
0:21And then this four prong what can go directly to the predator
0:27So once you start the predator up you can plug this four prong directly into its four
0:31The red one the red one and predator works
0:35Twist it it's on you don't turn on the switches for the predator. You just start it and plug it in. It's ready to go
0:40Cool, it's that it's that simple now
0:43one other way that we could power this thing
0:50We don't have generators and we prefer to use oh it's in here prefer to use something else
0:58We have this guy so this guy which we made of the tape, but it says David power to kitchen
1:08Because with a camp it offers us the opportunity
1:14To plug directly into
1:16AC power because they're gonna be giving us a panel that's 70 amps split into four duplex boxes
1:22But this can run off a regular plug. Yeah pretty cool
1:26So to simulate this we're going to
1:29Turn on the anchor again instead of using this one
1:37We're gonna turn the AC button
1:40And I'm gonna go right here, so this is 20 amp max all said and done
1:45And you can hear the fan already on you can see the lights are
1:50So the whole thing can run off just that plug too
1:54now the only limitation of doing this is that you cannot
1:58Run all three fridges all the char phone chargers all the things we want to do probably for the whole time
2:06It's best to use the higher
2:08amperage
2:10Wire and plugs because it can handle the heavier load
2:14so
2:15first look is go with this 30 amp option or
2:19Twist this into the predator 30 if we can't we absolutely can plug this into David's
2:25All using a power cord and we would be totally fine
2:28You could serve at night you can prep food you can see it's it's gonna work really well. All right
2:34So we can let that stay lit right now
FEATURE 7 Β· POWER III

πŸ”‹ The Battery Drill β€” "repeatable systems"

2026-08-01 (party-eve) Β· 1m 7s

Power out? Flip to battery, light comes on, dinner still happens. The philosophy of redundancy, taught in 67 seconds: reserve before you leave, lights that always work, obligations always met.

"These are repeatable systems β€” so that we have backups in a worst case… we can still prep food and still meet our obligations to the camp."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:01Turn this off. Okay, power's off. Okay, we have no power. Maybe we ran out of power. Maybe
0:11something happened. Then we come over here and let's say we still need to prep food. We have propane,
0:17but we need light. Maybe it's for dinner one night. So we turn it to battery,
0:23turn on our battery here. See the light turn on. This can go off. And now we power. We have a
0:31backup system. These are repeatable systems. So that we have backups in a worst case. Maybe the
0:38Plyodus causes something to not work with the generator. The very, very worst. We can charge
0:42our batteries and then make sure we have some reserve before we leave so that these lights
0:48work so that we can still prep food and still kind of meet our obligations to the camp. Good.
0:56Cool. Okay. That is in a nutshell our electrum for getting this thing started. We have no power.
FEATURE 8 Β· PACK-DOWN

🧹 Grab the Jenny β€” put-back discipline

2026-08-01 (party-eve) Β· 18.4s

The shortest lesson and maybe the most Burning Man of all: strike as you go, one at a time, everything back in its place. Leave No Trace starts in the trailer.

"It's easier if we get everything put back as we go."
🎀 Karaoke transcriptwhisper-synced Β· tap a line β€” the film follows 🌊
0:00I really need this. We're just going to do them one at a time.
0:05It's easier if we get everything put back as we go.
0:08I'm going to grab the Jenny.
0:13I want to disconnect this here.
🎞️ Also screening: 50+ build clips in the Build Trail β€” the Tool Maker sessions, the veggie coffin, the semi arriving, Mocha the shower dog πŸ• β€” plus 18 meetings in the Decision Trail.
More party-eve reels threading into the program as their transcripts hatch 🐒 (IMG_4717 / 4719–4722).