EDR Logic Levels

Hello,
I am a mentor of an FRC team that has access to a bunch of EDR kits. We are doing some off-season programming instruction, and want to use our python devices (our team currently uses Python) to create some robots which may . Do you know what the logic level is for the Vex EDR signals? We are mostly using the following…
Motors and motor controllers (we may just use an H-Bridge instead of the controller).
Servo
Rangefinder
Line tracker

I am assuming after perusing the docs that the analog sensors have a 5 v logic level. Is this true for all the devices?

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Mr. R^2

I have measured the digital sensor pins on the cortex to have a voltage of 3.3V when written high and the sensors use a 5V regulated supply.
I don’t know what the adc or motor controller voltages are but I can take apart a cortex tomorrow and find the datasheets for the chips.

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If you are using the cortex (as opposed to V5) there’s some details info here

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Thank you both. That is excellent news. I would be interested to know about the pwm outputs If it is not too much of an undertaking. If it is, I understand.
I found the section of the manual that jpearman quoted, and it goes on to discuss the analog input. I will need to temper the voltages because thought they begin at a mere .2 volts, they do go to 5 volts max which is too much (at least for the esp32s. It seems a simple voltage divider will do the trick though.

We have a beaglebone, a raspberry pi, and many esp32s.

The students are making a lot of headway with Python, and I am excited about the prospect of using this hardware to take their knowledge to the next level.

~Mr. R^2

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