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vexide

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  • Microcontrollers and firmware tools
  • Framework

A Rust runtime and set of APIs for programming VEX robots, with an async executor and device control. It is meant for writing robot programs in Rust instead of other languages.

Made by vexide.

Source on GitHub: github.com/vexide/vexide (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 0285dfc (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 0285dfc (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides safe APIs for VEX peripherals such as motors and sensors.
  • Includes an async executor and runtime with common futures and synchronization primitives.
  • Offers low-level system APIs for competition control, OS facilities, and backtrace collection.
  • Supplies a #[vexide::main] attribute and bare-metal startup code for booting a program on a V5 brain.
  • Can be built with cargo and cargo-v5, which converts programs and uploads them to the robot over a wired or wireless connection.
  • Can compile to host targets using a mocked SDK so changes can be tested without a Brain.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 0285dfc.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Building needs Rust's nightly channel with the rust-src component; running programs requires a VEX V5 Brain, and uploading needs cargo-v5 over a wired or wireless connection.

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
16 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release
v0.8.0 (30 Nov 2025)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.