DISCLAIMER: Only one V5 Brain was harmed in the making, and frankly, @sazrocks did it to himself (if you know, you know.) Nine months ago, I said this: Someone with enough boredom, unemployment, and zero regard for if their Brain comes out alive might be able to do this. Sadly, while I am bored an…

Nice work! I know it took a lot of effort to get this working and I’m glad to see that it turned out well.

Thats really cool!! I dont think I have ever been so sucked into a post. The effort you had to give deserves props!!

Epic project. One step closer to playing Doom on the Vex brain :grin:

[image] Mavric: One step closer to playing Doom on the Vex brain You don’t need Linux for that, it was dome 8 years ago. [image] Doom on the V5 VEX V5 General Discussion Surprised that someone already got the v5 to run doom [DOOM on the Vex V5] …

As James said, DOOM has already been done. That being said, I have gotten a DRM/KMS (direct rendering manager) driver working since I made this post (minus vsync support due to quirks in how the Brain routes interrupts not playing nicely with the kernel). I’ve been able to test some basic graphical …

:smiley: This is a sick project. This might be a really dumb idea, but what if someone rewrote the entire brain? OS and all. I do not know the legality of this, as you can not modify electric components, but what about software? It would be interesting to see if you could possible make the brain fa…

Well that answers my question: No modifications to electronic or pneumatic components are allowed. Motors (including the V5 Smart Motor firmware), microcontrollers (including V5 Robot Brain firmware)

Linux 6.18.40 on the VEX V5 Brain

VEX V5 General Discussion

jpearman September 23, 2026, 2:41am 5

You don’t need Linux for that, it was dome 8 years ago.