Become a wifi.mom

share your signal with the whole camp

Got a Starlink dish or a hotspot and a patch of wilderness full of people with no signal? You've got everything you need to be a wifi.mom. Pick a tree, plant it, and your uplink becomes wood-speed wifi for the gathering. The product is the easy path — but the source is open if you'd rather build your own for personal or community use.

the easy way

wifi.tree/sprout

ESP32 · ~$10 · simple

A chip the size of a stick of gum that does the whole job on its own — wifi, DNS, and the portal, all on board. Perfect for the parking lot, a camp, a pop-up, or anywhere you want the least possible gear to haul.

Order one ready to go → Or flash an ESP32 yourself →

wifi.tree/sapling

Raspberry Pi Zero · ~$35+ · more visitors

More room to grow: data quotas, fancier traffic shaping, and a full visitor history. Best for a base camp or a long gathering where you want the extra knobs. For those who have Raspberry Pi Zero W 1 or 2 and dont want to buy or build a sprout.

Sapling setup guide →
before you roll out

What you'll need

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A signal to share

Starlink, a cell hotspot, any uplink you packed in. Your tree connects to it and quietly re-shares it as wood-speed wifi across camp.

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A tree to plant

A wifi.tree/sprout (any common ESP32, ~$10 — or order one ready to go) or a wifi.tree/sapling (Raspberry Pi Zero W 1 or 2).

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A little power

A USB battery, a solar bank, or a cigarette-lighter adapter. A sprout sips so little you'll forget it's on. Flash it once at home, then it runs itself.

the gentle philosophy

Why a tree, and why wood-speed?

A wifi.tree is deliberately slow. The default cap is 100 kbps per visitor — plenty for messaging, maps, and saying you made it in, but not enough for anyone to swallow the whole dish. One uplink, a whole camp, kept fair. That's wood-speed.

Leaves expire after a few hours. It keeps the guest list fresh and gently reminds everyone the signal is shared and alive. Nobody's ever locked out — you can always grow a new leaf.

And it's all yours to shape: the tree's name, the emoji, the welcome note, the accent color, the leaf lifetime, the speed cap. Make it sound like your camp. It's your tree, your gathering, your rules.

License

wifi.tree is released under the PolyForm Noncommercial License. You can use, modify, and share it freely for personal, educational, and community purposes. Selling hardware or services built on it requires a commercial license — get in touch.