My school has a few cool ideas for what to do with some of our older V2(?) cortexes but many need lots of motors. My question then is if there is a way to bind and run multiple cortexes off of a single controller and how many motors can the cortex handle at once before they lose power?

Conveniently, work has already been done, by none other than jpearman, to communicate between 2 Cortexes over UART: [image] Communicating between two cortex - dual cortex robot Technical Discussion Summary The code linked at the end of this post allows two cortex control…

You can only sync up one vortex to a controller because you can only put one vexnet key into the controller. I would keep the maximum motors at 12 but you should be able to go higher. With, 12 motors, you are already using all ports and 2 y splitter cables. All of the other 3 prong ports are for sen…

My thought was that the controller would only be bound to one frequency that both cortexes would recognize, but that’s definitely not something I’d know enough about

[image] Deicer: V2(?) cortexes [image] Gerty3: This is the V2 cortex. Before there is any further confusion about the name, see this post: [image] How to Compete Against V5 with V2 VRC “V2” is not a real thing. Neither is “V4” as some people call it. The mos…

And the PIC brain would be V0.5! I did what James did with the PIC connecting via serial ports. I also used a pretty simple protocol between the PIC controllers. Each side could act as a master/slave both sending commands / receiving data. The joysticks were connected to PIC 1, and the program …

But the V5 is also the cortex, it uses a cortex microcontroller, some people refer to the “Cortex”(V4) as the legacy kits.

The big reason to not call V5 a “Cortex” despite using cortex chips is that “Cortex” appeared in the name for the previous generation of EDR control hardware and it does not appear in the name for the V5 control hardware. So while the V5 Brain is a device that uses Cortex processors, it’s not the VE…

it’s mentioned for the V4 control system as the Vex arm based cortex microcontroller system. For the V5 it’s known as the V5 robot brain, but just because it’s not specifically mentionned in the name does not mean that it cannot be mistaken. Many teams still refer to the V5 brain as the Cortex, whic…

In order to bind multiple vortexes together, you must perform the Rite of Binding. First you link all the cortexes together with wire and arrange them in a circle. Then dance around the circle chanting: Thy supreme overlord DRow and the almighty vex gods He who created the mighty chainbar Then y…