Mega 2560 R3 Prototype Screw Terminal Block Shield Board Pre-soldered Kit, Breakout Module for Arduino UNO

Cures jumper pins the become loose. No more tracing connection problems.

This item works. The top of the board offers easy and secure ways to use jumper wires for connections between an Arduino and peripherals such as breadboards, screens, and other devices.The pro: much less cost than comparable boardsThe con: the header pins are missing the plastic at the base. The pins will be bent from shipping, too. They tried to prevent that with foam, but mail is highly abused in the economical packaging. It was a task to line up the pins to the Arduino Mega 2560.Bottom line: it’s cheap and it works!

Product looked good in photos, but the manufacturer’s packaging was totally inadequate. It was in soft foam and then placed into an envelope. When it arrived inside of an amazon box with another item, dozens of pins were bent like used staples. Returned and purchased an equivalent unassembled kit product which was properly packed by the provider.

Love having these pre-soldered BUT they are simply not packaged well enough. More times than not, these arrive with bent pins. See photos. I'm not sure I can resurrect this one but I'm going to try before I refund. Wish they were shipped in a box instead of a bag.UPDATE: I was able to carefully straighten the pins enough with small needle nose pliers to get them seated into a mega board. All pins tested successfully. It takes some patience but I still think these are worth the effort if you need screw terminals.

I read that this is a problem from other reviewers before purchase. Yep. It is a problem. About 15 minutes of work with pliers and gently inserting the pins in a MEGA2560's female pins a row at a time, and I successfully mated the board to the MEGA2560. It meets the training need that I have for the board, is priced okay, but is very poorly packaged for shipment.

very poor packageing resulting in bent header pins.I was able to straighten the pins to make it useable.other than that this product worked as expected.I would not recomend purchaseing from this particular vendordue to packageing.

It works like it should, but like others my pins were bent when I got it, all I think they would have to do is put another or thicker piece of the foam stuff over the pins

Bought two of these because my brand-of-choice was out-of-stock. Overall they look fine, but, 1 of them came without the pins inserted into foam and thus a few pins were bent (one quite a bit), but I was able to carefully straighten them. The other board came with pins inserted into foam, yet, 1 of the pins was still slightly bent. They might be functionally 'good' boards, but, their packaging/handling could be better.