Reading a drone off its 433 MHz link

We spent time on the bench pulling live drone telemetry straight off a 433 MHz SiK radio link, decoding MAVLink as it crosses the air, and building tooling to detect and eavesdrop a link that thinks it is private.

The short version: most autonomous platforms in North America and Europe run open flight-stack architectures, not hardened proprietary ones. That makes their radio, GPS, and firmware surfaces reachable in ways operators rarely account for. This is the work behind our drone and robotics testing practice.