You will need a USB-C cable and laptop to participate. There's limited number of boards so please RSVP :))

The Wemos D1 mini is a low-cost, low-power development board based on the ESP8266 wi-fi chip. You can use it to host a web page that anyone nearby can access.

Imagine you're on a train, in an area with poor cell reception. You look for available wi-fi networks, and there's one called "Free Reading Wi-fi." When you connect, you get a popup window that says, "Sorry, this network doesn't connect to the internet! Enjoy this essay!" And what follows is something you never would've read otherwise.

This workshop will show you how to make your own wi-fi access point and web server using a Wemos D1 mini board. The Wemos D1 mini is small, cheap, and easy to program using the Arduino IDE. It's also incredibly power efficient. Plug one into a medium-sized USB power bank, and it'll easily run for a couple days.

This will be entirely based on this zine: https://iffybooks.net/wp-content/uploads/zines/IffyBooksPocketWifiPortalZineprint.pdf