In addition to volunteering in Black Rock City each year, joining our Tech Team is one of a myriad of ways to participate in Burning Man. Members of our community were early pioneers of the Internet and more and more technology entrepreneurs and industry leaders are joining our ranks as Burning Man culture spreads around the world. Much like Black Rock City provides a context and container for physical creations and manifestations by artists, performer and builder collectives, this Innovation section facilitates the development of technical and virtual tools, built by our community for our community. Please note that the applications and links shown below are operated by application providers over which Burning Man exercises no control. The descriptions below have been supplied by the application providers, and Burning Man neither endorses these applications nor warrants that they operate as described.
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iBurn 2022
iBurn is back for 2022! iBurn is an offline map, compass, and guide for the Burning Man art festival, crafted with love as a gift for the community. We hope you like it!
Features:
* Nearby Mode: Quickly find what's happening around you right now
* Full Text Search: Try "bacon" or "coffee"
* Geocoder: Always shows your current Playa Address (e.g. 6:30 & B)
* Easy access to Favorites
* Walking & Biking Estimates
* Compass mode
* Event filtering
* Every public listing for Art Camps & Events (from PlayaEvents API)
* Works on iPhone, iPad, and Android
Want to help us make it even better? Get involved! iBurn is free and open source: https://github.com/iBurnApp
PlayaPlaces
Playa Places lets you browse all the events, art installations and camps that will be at Burning Man without the need to install any app, just load the website, and it’ll be available on your phone 100% offline!
You can save your favorite events to quickly get back to them, and there’s also dark mode available for your late night usage!
iBurn 2019
iBurn is back for 2019! iBurn is an offline map, compass, and guide for the Burning Man art festival, crafted with love as a gift for the community. We hope you like it!
Features:
* Nearby Mode: Quickly find what's happening around you right now
* Full Text Search: Try "bacon" or "coffee"
* Geocoder: Always shows your current Playa Address (e.g. 6:30 & B)
* Easy access to Favorites
* Walking & Biking Estimates
* Compass mode
* Event filtering
* Every public listing for Art Camps & Events (from PlayaEvents API)
* Works on iPhone, iPad, and Android
Want to help us make it even better? Get involved! iBurn is free and open source: https://github.com/iBurnApp
iBurn 2018
iBurn is back for 2018! iBurn is an offline map, compass, and guide for the Burning Man art festival, crafted with love as a gift for the community. We hope you like it!
Features:
* Nearby Mode: Quickly find what's happening around you right now
* Full Text Search: Try "bacon" or "coffee"
* Geocoder: Always shows your current Playa Address (e.g. 6:30 & B)
* Easy access to Favorites
* Walking & Biking Estimates
* Compass mode
* Event filtering
* Every public listing for Art Camps & Events (from PlayaEvents API)
* Works on iPhone, iPad, and Android
Want to help us make it even better? Get involved! iBurn is free and open source: https://github.com/Burning-Man-Earth
Time To Burn 2018
Called the “must have app” by the Black Rock Beacon and SFGate! Back for 2017, with the freshest data around. Mmmm…smell the goodness! This is the app that has all the camps, artwork, and playa calendar events, and also the Rockstar Librarian Music Guide. What’s that? You also want a GPS enabled map of the city, and your own personalized QR code so you can “bump” in the middle of the playa? Sure! No problem! Let’s also throw in quick & easy access to the official Burning Man traffic reports, and a built in packing checklist.
Lovingly gifted to the citizens of Black Rock City by three people with huge amounts of talent, more than 30 years of playa experience between them, and never enough time on their hands! Remember: Safety Third and keep an eye out for petite beagles!
Printable Playa Schedule
A web app that lets you export the full list of Burning Man events & art installations to an Excel spreadsheet for easy reading, sorting, printing, & pre-burn excitement. These are all the same events you'll find on the official Playa Events page, but with Excel, you can quickly skim through the list & create a little quick-reference booklet to print & bring to the Playa. Plus, the spreadsheet includes camp locations, which aren't available on the official Playa Events page until Burning Man actually begins.
Tip: Once I've gone through & made a trimmed-down list of events I'm interested in, I like to sort by "type," then the "date" columns. That groups all the food in one section, parties in another, art in another, etc – and within each section you can skim down the current day's column to see what's happening at a moment's notice. When you're hungry, just flip to the food page! 🙂
BurnVibes
Burn Vibes – discover your Burning Man vibes, it’s your path to unknown.
Know your heroes, take part, share the love. Learn what happened before, affect what happens next! Discover your favorite Burning Man vibes, keep a list of your favorite sets.
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/by/app/burn-vibes/id1265755492?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dreamteammobile.burnvibes
Playa Explorer
Unnecessarily Bear Productions brings you the Playa Explorer. This bot allows you to learn about camps, events and art installations at Burning Man. Try chatting with us on Alexa (https://www.amazon.com/Unnecessarily-Bear-Productions-Playa-Explorer/dp/B0746SRQHG) or Facebook Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/PlayaExplorer/).
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PlayaGPS
Finding your way around Black Rock City seems easy when you first arrive – all the street signs are all there, and it seems you can always walk five or ten steps and see where you are. Then more camps are set up, and a little dust kicks up – and pretty soon just EXACTLY where you are starts to get a little sketchy… and unimportant… till it is important for some reason! The HopperCodes team has nothing against wandering, in the sense of exploring, but when you are wandering with a purpose – as in looking for your bike (!), it is good to have a sense of place.
PlayaGPS reports your Playa Address (as in 5:45 Donatello) and compass heading – and with it's large high contrast display, it is visible in the harshest of noonday lighting. You can mark a spot with PlayaGPS and navigate back to it with confidence. And unlike most GPS units, you don't have to be moving to know which direction to go, as the software uses the electronic compass in your Android device as well as the GPS receiver to navigate.
PlayaGPS is for Android devices, is open source, free, and respects your privacy – the only permission requested is to access the GPS. When outside the perimeter, the display reads the miles to BRC – and when inside, where you are, and how far you are from where you left something. What more do you need? Info at www.hoppercodes.com; download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hoppercodes.playagps
iBurn
iBurn is back for 2015 with some killer new features! iBurn is an offline map, compass, and guide for the Burning Man art festival, crafted with love as a gift for the community. We hope you like it!
New in 2015:
* Nearby Mode: Quickly find what’s happening around you right now
* Improved Search: Try “bacon” or “coffee”
* Onboarding: You’ll like it
* Geocoder: Always shows your current Playa Address (e.g. 6:30 & Ballyhoo)
* Favorites now have their own tab
* Walking & Biking Estimates
* Improved table cells to include more relevant information
* Emojis Everywhere!
* Optimized for iOS 8 (we even got some Swift code in there now)
Still packing the features you love:
* Compass mode
* Custom map pins
* Event filtering
* Every public listing for Art Camps & Events (from PlayaEvents API)
* Works on iPhone, iPad, and Android
Want to help us make it even better? Get involved! iBurn is free and open source: https://github.com/Burning-Man-Earth/iBurn-iOS