Adapter from 3 wire to smart port?

[technik3k]

@Subway_Kid, I understand your frustration.

VEX promised Smart Port sensors and 3-Wire Expander (last section) for the legacy ports long time ago and still hadn’t delivered.

@callen

VEX Sales told me about three weeks ago they expected to have it up on the site after two weeks or so, so about by now. That doesn’t imply anything about when it will ship, though.

If your V5 Brain with non-functioning legacy ports is still on the warranty you could contact VEX Support and ask for a replacement unit.

If you have all 8 functioning 3-Wire ports, it is not that bad, because you are competing against other VRC teams that have to work with the same limit.

Finally, as the last resort you may try this technique that allows you to connect multiple simple sensors to a single 3-Wire legacy port:

Connect multiple sensors to a single port to overcome the limit of 8 legacy ports

Many teams are running into V5 limit of just 8 legacy ports, and even the Cortex hardware with 13 digital and 8 analog ports may not be enough for some of the teams. So what can be done? First of all, Cortex users that run out of digital ports but have unused analog ports could simply connect buttons or limit switches to the analog ports. Second, if you use multiple quad encoders, and don’t care about direction of rotation but only total tick count (for instance with flywheel) then you could …

Simple sensors would be digital (one state) switches and buttons.

@Subway_Kid

2 Tracker wheels take up 4 ports already, and then potentiometer for tray and a line sensor on my tray for detecting cubes.

For example, instead of using potentiometer and line sensor on your tray, you can hook up three limit switches to a single port: two for the end positions of the tray and one for detecting the cubes. This will save you, at least, one port without reducing end functionality.