YouTube shows you how. BuilderCamp lets you do it. Weekend workshops where you actually build things — container homes, solar arrays, tiny houses, and off-grid systems. Real tools, real materials, real skills you keep.
Every camp puts a real tool in your hands with an experienced builder standing next to you. No simulations. No auditoriums. No watching someone else work.
You cut real steel, wire real circuits, pour real concrete, and mount real solar panels. Everything you build, you understand — because you built it.
Every builder gets personal instruction. No back-row seats. You’re the one holding the tool, start to finish.
Saturday & Sunday, 9 to 5. Arrive Friday night, leave Sunday with skills you didn’t have on Friday. No time off work required.
Every workshop ships with a detailed build plan, materials list, and tool guide — everything you need to do it again at home.
Pick your build. Every workshop is a 2-day intensive (3 days for the off-grid build) held in Cedar Creek, Texas.
Cut openings in a real shipping container. Frame walls, install insulation (spray-foam demo), rough-in electrical, and mount a mini-split. Leave knowing exactly how to convert a container into livable space.
Size a system, mount panels, wire a charge controller, connect a LiFePO4 battery bank, and install an inverter. By Sunday you have a working off-grid solar system you built yourself.
Frame walls, set headers, install windows, and sheath a roof. Traditional wood-frame construction at small scale — the foundation of every DIY home build.
Build a rain-catchment system, install a hand pump, plumb a gravity-fed filtration setup, and wire a solar-powered well pump. Complete water independence, from scratch.
Convert a shipping container into a professional podcast studio. Acoustic treatment, sound isolation, electrical for audio gear, and solar power. Record broadcast-quality audio in a steel box.
The ultimate workshop. Build a complete solar-powered container with insulation, electrical, plumbing, mini-split HVAC, and off-grid solar — start to finish in one extended weekend.
Can’t make it to Texas? Learn the fundamentals online, then come for the hands-on weekend.
HD lessons walking through every step of each build type. Pause, rewind, rewatch. Lifetime access; new modules added monthly.
From $49
Downloadable plans with materials lists, tool requirements, wiring diagrams, and step-by-step instructions. Print them and build at your own pace.
$29–79 per plan
Monthly live calls where you bring your build questions. Stuck on wiring? Confused about insulation? Get answers in real time.
Included with membership
A members’ forum for sharing builds, asking questions, getting feedback, and finding building partners near you.
Included with membership
BuilderCamp is run by working builders — people who have framed shops, wired off-grid solar, plumbed rain catchment, and converted shipping containers into livable space on their own land in Central Texas.
The crew has roots in web software for the homebuilding industry — tools that powered new-home search for some of the nation’s largest homebuilders — and years of hands-on residential and off-grid work. We teach what we do: no theory, all practice.
BuilderCamp belongs to a family of sites for builders, off-gridders, and makers.
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