Raspberry Pi Compatible Wireless Gamepad / Controller Reviews

4.4 Rating 168 Reviews

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“Great product, easy to set up”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Doing some work on ROS2 and some robotics. Put the batteries in this thing and forgot about it - until I moved it some while later and my robot surprised me by jumping into life. I've heard of 'plug and play' but this was just too easy.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Great value for money controller, quick delivery and exactly as described. Easy to get started, looking forward to controlling my robot lawnmower with it.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Great piece of kit. Great service. Thanks guys. Chapeau!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Very easy to set up. Shipping to west coast of US was amazingly fast. The quality of the controllers and all the function of all the buttons and analog sticks was clean and precise. Thank you.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Absolutely perfect for RetroPie I was so fed up with faffing about getting BluTooth pads to work. This is just plug & play in it's ideal form!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Bought 2 and they both work out of the very nice box with retropie on my RPi4B. We haven't had a chance to try them with anything else yet but we have been violently putting them through their paces: heavy-handedly 2-Player blasting Mariokart, sonic, supermario bros and a bunch of retro arcade games for the last 10 days without any issues! Ordered 9pm on a Monday, dispatched 7am on Tuesday, delivered on Wednesday to a fairly remote area of Scotland. Properly boxed and padded for protection during transport. Both are solidly built and have a reasonably solid feel, no different to more "high-end" products. It's also really cool to be able to see the inner workings. If you forget to turn them off, they go to sleep after a short time to conserve battery and will wake up immediately on pressing the start button. Nice touch! Bonus Points for not being bluetooth (energy drain!) 2 small negatives: The trigger switches on both controllers feel like they need a bit of force and can be a bit clicky if you don't press them at the exactly correct angle. Once you figure this out, muscle memory will rid you of this issue within a half-hour of use and 'twill ne'er rear its ugly head again! The analogue sticks on one of the controllers feel a bit "sticky" (puntastic!) - it's difficult to describe but they are not as responsive as I would like and once they even got stuck in "turn right" and even though I could move the sticks as normal I couldn't get it out of right turn until I rebooted the system. It works perfectly 99.9% of the time though and I only noticed the sluggishness in the sticks because the sticks on the other controller are so smooth and are a match for any more expensive branded controllers, without the second controller to compare, I never would have known. It does indicate that there may be slight differences in quality control at the manufacturing stage though or else I was just a little unlucky. For me, this doesn't lose a star because it's not a noticeable issue if I don't regularly swap between the 2 controllers; I expected them to be far worse for the price and also it gives me an excuse to open up the less good controller and have a tinker on some rainy Sunday in the future (not necessary but just for fun). For the price, I would absolutely recommend this quality product.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Great controller for just £14. Only gripe is that the trigger buttons don’t feel as smooth and the rest of the buttons, but everything still works regardless. It’s handy having something that is plug and play via USB so you don’t have to worry about setting up Bluetooth (which can also zap some processing power on the older rpis)”

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Posted 3 years ago