Stamp a scan-to-join code for your wifi
Before anything can be beamed, both devices need the same network. Put your wifi on paper — one scan and a guest (or your own second device) is on board.
Nothing typed here goes anywhere: the code is drawn by this page, on your device, and the page keeps working with wifi-only or no connection at all. Print it, frame it by the door, tape it to the router.
How the joining scan works
Phone cameras recognise a small standard text format — WIFI:T:WPA;S:name;P:password;; — and offer a one-tap join when they see it in a QR code. iOS and Android have both understood it for years; laptops with camera-based QR readers do too. The stamp above builds exactly that string (escaping awkward characters in names and passwords correctly, which is where most generators stumble) and hands it to our in-house QR encoder.
Then walk to the beaming counter
The whole reason this desk exists: once the second device joins your wifi, it can meet the first one directly. Head to the file beam to move photos and documents between them, drop a line through the text beam, or weigh the connection you just made.