call your mom ๐ฟ
Going off-grid shouldn't mean dropping off the face of the earth. A wifi.tree shares one Starlink dish as gentle wood-speed wifi for the whole camp โ just enough signal to text "made it, love you" to the people who'd worry, then put the phone down and disappear into the trees. Off-grid, not out of touch.
off-grid ยท open source ยท runs on a $10 chip
There's a particular knot in your stomach when you roll past the last bar of signal. The trip's supposed to set you free โ but somewhere back home, someone's wondering if you made it, and you've got no way to tell them.
wifi.mom unties that knot. Not with a firehose of internet โ just enough to send "I'm here, I'm safe, I love you" and feel the worry let go on both ends. Then the phone goes back in the pack and the woods are yours again.
Deliberately slow internet, shared in places that have none. Fast enough to find your friends, message home, and check the map โ gentle enough to stay fair when a whole camp is on one dish. Sips battery. Leaves the woods wild.
It's wood-speed out here, family โ load the map and go hug a tree.
From the rainbow parking lot to the back of the woods.
Starlink, a cell hotspot, whatever you hauled into the wild. One connection, somewhere it has no business existing.
A tiny device โ a wifi.tree/sprout (ESP32) or wifi.tree/sapling (Raspberry Pi Zero) โ quietly shares your uplink as wood-speed wifi across camp. Sips power, plays nice with solar.
Neighbors connect, type a name, and grow a leaf to get online. Just enough signal to find their people and say they made it. Leaves fall after a few hours โ grow another whenever.
Someone loves it enough to bring their own next time. It's open source, so anyone can. One wifi.mom becomes a forest of them.
Every wifi.mom leaves a note. They all say roughly the same thing.
Welcome home, family ๐
The wifi's on โ it's wood-speed, so it's slow and that's on purpose. Enough to tell folks you're alive and find your camp, not enough to doomscroll the woods away. Share the signal. Pack it in, pack it out.
Leave no trace. Leave a little love.
โ lovin you, mom
Capped on purpose so one dish stays fair for a whole camp. Enough to find your people; not enough for anyone to hog it.
Free, no ads, no tracking, no harvesting. You share because out here, sharing is the whole point.
Runs on a $10 chip or a Pi Zero, sips battery, and gets along great with solar and a satellite dish.
Grab a ready-made tree and you're live in minutes โ or read, fork, and build the whole thing yourself for personal or community use.
Hand-grown, pre-flashed, ready to plant when you roll into the parking lot. This is the easy way.
Adopt a tree โSource is open. Flash a sprout onto any ESP32 or raise a sapling on a Pi โ free for personal and community use.
Read the docs โ