Rubber Armstrong
Rubber Armstrong Camp Platform
Product Owner and Builder of the Rubber Armstrong camp platform: website, crew apps, surveys and off-grid power control for a Burning Man camp.
- Role
- Product Owner and Builder
- Agency
- Independent
- Client
- Rubber Armstrong
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Black Rock City, Nevada, USA
- Built with
- Cursor, Claude, Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, Python
What was the brief?
Rubber Armstrong has been a Burning Man camp since 2015. Running it means recruiting campmates, coordinating build crews, managing power in the desert and learning from each year. Kimber built the tools to run it.
Scale and constraints
- A camp community running since 2015
- Recruitment, build, live operations and debrief each year
What was Kimber responsible for?
- Designed and built every tool with Cursor and Claude
- Ran the systems on the playa
Technical and production highlights
- rubberarmstrong.com and a camp portal for campmates
- A mobile build-crew app for pre-build, build, storage and logistics
- Registration with an email campaign system that tracks opens and clicks
- A 2025 camp report with animated charts, and a 2026 post-event survey
- Solar Orchestra: automated power and cooling control across the camp
- An art car tracker over long-range LoRa radio, and automated build timelapses
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