It appears that a student decided to remove the tether cable without pushing down the tab, and the controller seems to have a small piece missing. Although the tether cable still goes in, there is no connection. Can this be repaired, or is there a workaround? Or do I just need to buy a new controller?
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Welcome to the VEX Forum @bmmstechteach !
I have experienced this issue before, and the tether still worked if you held it in. Try that, but if you have no connection to the tether, I don’t know how to help you.
The VRC Cortex controller had the same issue with that socket. A shortcut fix is to loop a rubber band around the cable and then loop it around the controller to hold the plug in place. An aftermarket socket can be ordered online and replaced if you know how to solder but it would not be allowed to be used during a competition.
Take a look through this thread. I am guessing that the IQ socket is the same as the VRC Cortex Controller socket.
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Or you can try to bend a small piece of plastic or tin and glue it to the back of the controller.
One of the ultimate goals of stem is to demystify the world of technology and show students how they themselves could fix (and later build) the technology that seem beyond their knowledge or abilities at first.
You should definitely show the students that a small piece of plastic and glue, a little bit of ingenuity, and a few retries could make their controller usable again, rather than spending $45 to get a new one.
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Good luck with that, believe me, I’ve tried
I would call that a regular working controller.
You only need that port when you are updating the controller firmware or when you are calibrating the controller. For those 10 minutes out of the year, just hold it in or set it down so it’s not coming to come out.
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