Answers.Body: <p>That's not possible - sensor ports don't have the hardware to drive motors. That said, you can buy a motor multiplexer like <a href="http://www.mindsensors.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&amp;PAGE_user_op=view_page&amp;PAGE_id=134" rel="nofollow">this one</a> to do the job for you, if competition rules allow this.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Me and my partner are finishing up our robot for the RobotCup and we desperately need one more motor port. We will only use 3 sensor ports, so my question was if there was even the slight chance that we could switch one for the other.</p>
  
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Title: How to switch an NXT sensor port by a motor port?
UserDisplayName: Joana Santos
ThreadText: # How to switch an NXT sensor port by a motor port?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-26)
  
  Me and my partner are finishing up our robot for the RobotCup and we desperately need one more motor port. We will only use 3 sensor ports, so my question was if there was even the slight chance that we could switch one for the other.
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-03-26. Score: 2
  
  That's not possible - sensor ports don't have the hardware to drive motors. That said, you can buy a motor multiplexer like [this one](http://www.mindsensors.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=134) to do the job for you, if competition rules allow this.
  
  
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