How can I connect my Raspi with the VEX V5 brain?

[jpearman]

You can also use stdio calls on the smartports which will hide the details of the C vexGeneric… APIs.
see example here.

VEX U

you can also use standard C stdio API, this examples shows how to do that #include <stdio.h> #include "robot-config.h" using namespace vex; int main() { // IO using stdio //********************** FILE *fp1, *fp2; fp1 = fopen( "/dev/port20", "wb" ); fp2 = fopen( "/dev/port18", "rb" ); while(1) { if( fp1 != NULL ) { fprintf(fp1, "Hello\r\n"); fflush(fp1); } if( fp2 != NULL ) { char buf[128]; int nRead = fread( …