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I prchased 5 of these and some other things and one of the joysticks came broken. The shipment and everything was fine and came on time, it just kind of shocked me that sparkfun wouldn't check over their products to see if they're working. Maybe it broke during shipment, everything else was fine though. I doubt that sparkfun did this on purpose, but I was still kind of shocked to see a broken product. They also don't emphasize how YOU MUST BUY A BREAKBOARD. I'm warning everybody so they don't make the mistake I did, one breakboard, for one joystick. The feeling overall of the material is pretty cheap, but I mean, you can't expect too much out of a 7 dollar product (~9 plus breakboard). Other than that, nothing wrong with them so far. Fpr all the newbies out there like me, this will take up ALOT of pins on your arduino(or other microcontroller), I'm pretty sure you can only hook one arduino uno. Quite upset, hope Sparkfun will fix. But I will say, I'm loving this website.