A pocket scanner for rooms you didn’t set up. It listens to the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth around you, tells you what’s there, and helps you walk over and find it. Everything it sees stays between the device and your own machine.
A camera that streams anywhere has to hold a network connection, and that connection has a shape. Scout matches hardware addresses against known camera makers, flags access points hiding their name, and picks out the steady upstream trickle that video leaves behind even when the name and vendor have been scrubbed.
Wi-Fi monitor mode · vendor (OUI) match · traffic heuristics
AirTags, Samsung SmartTags and Tiles shout their presence every few seconds. One in range means nothing — half a café is carrying them. Scout watches for the one that’s still with you an hour later and somewhere else, which is the part that actually matters.
BLE advertisement scan · signal-strength persistence
An evil twin clones a network name you already trust and waits for your phone to prefer the stronger signal. Usually it gets there by knocking you off the real one first. Scout counts those deauthentication packets and shows you both networks side by side.
duplicate-BSSID detection · deauth frame counting
Scout only ever listens. It never transmits attacks, never jams, never touches anyone else’s devices. It is a detector, not a weapon — legal to carry and legal to use.
A number on a screen doesn’t help much by itself. The rest of Scout is about turning “something is here” into knowing what it is, where it is, and whether it was here yesterday.
Set it down, give it a few minutes, and get one summary for the room instead of a scrolling firehose. Sweeps are named and kept, so the same rental next year is a comparison rather than a fresh start.
Once something is flagged, Scout becomes a hot-and-cold meter for that one device. Signal climbs as you get closer. That’s how you get from “there’s a camera in here” to the smoke detector it’s sitting in.
Every 2.4 GHz access point in range with its channel, vendor and encryption. Open networks, WEP, and anything still running WPS get called out — the cheap mistakes worth knowing about in a place you’re sleeping.
Phones and laptops keep calling out for networks they’ve joined before, connected or not. It’s often the only way to notice a device that listens and never answers.
Your phone, your tags, your router. Mark them once and Scout stops flagging them, so what’s left is the stuff you didn’t put there yourself.
Every sweep is timestamped and stored on the device. Export a plain file over USB when you want a record. Nothing is uploaded to produce it.
Count and status on the screen, an LED when something changes, and a silent mode for when you’d rather not announce that you’re scanning.
The board is flashed and tested here before it ships, so the kit is assembly, not setup — no toolchain, no drivers, no first-boot ritual. Updates go on from your browser over USB when there are any.
Scout finds things that talk over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which covers most of what you’ll actually run into. It is not a full bug sweep. If a device stays off those two radios, Scout will not see it, and we’d rather say that plainly than sell you a false sense of safety.
Most of those need sensors Scout doesn’t carry — a radio power detector and an infrared lens finder — which is what Scout Pro is for. The 5 GHz gap is a different problem: it needs a different radio chip, not another sensor. Neither is built yet. Until they are, this is the honest edge of what the standard Scout does.
Wyrm is one person. There is no warehouse behind this and no factory waiting on an order — every unit gets built, flashed and tested by hand, so batches are small on purpose. Somewhere between ten and thirty at a time, depending on how much of the month I can give it.
How many I make depends on how many people actually want one. I don’t run ads and I’m not collecting your email to guess at demand — I post the work as it happens, and the response to that is the signal. If a lot of people want a Scout, the next batch is bigger. If a few do, it’s smaller and it still gets made.
When a batch is ready it goes up here and you buy one. No queue to join, no deposit, no place in line to lose. Sold out means the next batch is already being built.