VEX Microcontrollers Through History

[Art_Dutra_IV]

VEX has had essentially five main families of robot control systems, listed here by their main Brain:

• Consumer / retail products (VEXplorer, HEXBUG VEX Robotics)

  1. VEXplorer (2007)
  2. HEXBUG VEX Robotics Control System (2014)
  3. HEXBUG VEX Robotics Control System (2018), as used in Offroad Truck and the Balancing Boxing Bots
  4. HEXBUG VEX Robotics Control System (2019), as used in Build Blitz and Bite Force kits. This is almost identical to the prior 2018 system, except that we changed the custom connectors to standard off-the-shelf ones and added the ability to add an analog sensor to any of the four Brain ports.

• Elementary (VEX GO)

  1. VEX GO Robot Brain (shares a common system architecture with the fourth generation (2019) retail control system)

• Elementary / middle school (VEX IQ)

  1. VEX IQ Robot Brain (2013)

• Middle / high school (IFI Robotics, VEX EDR)

  1. Isaac16 PBASIC Microcontroller
  2. Mini Robot Controller (2004)
  3. VEX PIC Microcontroller (2005)
  4. VEX ARM Cortex-based Microcontroller
  5. V5 Robot Brain (2018)

• Advanced (IFI Robotics)

  1. Isaac32 PBASIC Robot Controller
  2. FRC Robot Controller (2004)
  3. VEXpro ARM9 Microcontroller

Edit (2019-08-19): added the fourth generation Consumer / Retail control system.
Edit (2020-12-21): added the VEX GO control system