How to use V5 sensor on STM32 or other board?

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We would like to use V5 motors and sensor to build robot based on other platform, such as STM32, or jetsonNANO.

has anyone done this before? is that possible?

Thanks!

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Previous generation of vex “393” motors used a well known servo control method, so it was almost trivial to use them with third party controllers (like Arduino or NodeMCU).

However, V5 uses a propitiatory control protocol over RS-485 link, which I never seen openly published.

If you have to use V5 motors and sensors you may consider having your third party controller talk to V5 brain which, in turn, will control V5 motors and read sensors.

Otherwise, there are plenty of mature open source sensors and motor controllers that will work with STM32 out of the box.

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Anyone willing to answer this question would not be allowed to do so on this forum. I’ll be honest, you’d probably be better off using off-the-shelf parts for whatever you want to do anyways.

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Thanks so much! Our original intention was also to be able to use the V5 devices in other scenarios.

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Thanks a lot! we will try.