Adafruit
Shop Adafruit products at Little Bird Electronics, your trusted Australian source for this iconic maker brand. From NeoPixel LEDs and Feather microcontrollers to Circuit Playground boards and TFT displays, we stock a wide range of Adafruit-designed hardware for every project.
Whether you're building interactive wearables, learning electronics in the classroom, or prototyping IoT devices, Adafruit's well-documented ecosystem makes it easy to get started. Available for delivery across Australia.
Hall effect sensor [US5881LUA]
SKU: AF-158 | Brand: Adafruit
Hall effect sensors detect whether a magnet is near. Useful for non-contact/waterproof type switches, position sensors, rotary/shaft encoders. I tried dozens of different hall effect sensors to see which one wou...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit CAN Pal - CAN Bus Transciever
SKU: AF-5708 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit CAN Pal is a CAN bus transceiver breakout for microcontrollers that have a native CAN peripheral. It converts 3.3V logic-level CAN TX/RX signals to the differential signalling required for the CAN bus. Th...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
PIR (motion) sensor
SKU: AF-189 | Brand: Adafruit
PIR sensors are used to detect motion from pets/humanoids from about 20 feet away (possibly works on zombies, not guaranteed). This one has an adjustable delay before firing (approx 2-4 seconds), adjustable sensiti...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit ANO Rotary Navigation Encoder Breakout PCB
SKU: AF-5221 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout PCB converts the ANO rotary navigation encoder's non-standard pinout into a straightforward, breadboard-friendly header strip. The ANO encoder combines a rotary encoder with directional and centre-push b...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
IR (Infrared) Receiver Sensor [TSOP38238]
SKU: AF-157 | Brand: Adafruit
IR sensor tuned to 38KHz, perfect for receiving commands from a TV remote control. Runs at 3V to 5V so it's great for any microcontroller.To use, connect pin 3 (all the way to the right) to 5V power, pin 2 (middle) to...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Transceiver - STEMMA JST PH 2mm
SKU: AF-5990 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Transceiver combines a high-powered IR transmitter and a sensitive 38 kHz IR receiver on a single board. With two 940 nm IR LEDs (one vertical, one horizontal) driven by an onboard N-ch...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Simple RF T4 Receiver - 315MHz Toggle Type
SKU: AF-1097 | Brand: Adafruit
A simple 4-channel 315 MHz RF receiver module with toggle-type output. No programming, configuration, or microcontroller needed — just power it with ~5V DC and pair it with a matching RF keyfob remote. Each of the fou...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
3x4 Matrix Keypad
SKU: AF-3845 | Brand: Adafruit
This 3×4 matrix keypad provides 12 buttons (0–9, *, #) in a sturdy, rigid format. It uses a matrix scanning arrangement requiring only 7 pins to read all 12 keys, making it efficient to connect to Arduino, Raspberry P...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sonar Distance Sensor + 2 x 10K resistors
SKU: AF-3942 | Brand: Adafruit
The HC-SR04 is an ultrasonic distance sensor that measures distances from approximately 2 cm to 400 cm (best results between 10–250 cm). Widely used in robotics, automation, interactive art, and motion sensing project...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Liquid Flow Meter - Plastic 1/2 NPS Threaded
SKU: AF-828 | Brand: Adafruit
An inline flow sensor for measuring liquid or water flow in solar heating, computer cooling, irrigation, and other fluid projects. The sensor uses a pinwheel with a magnet and an external hall effect sensor to count r...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
NeoKey FeatherWing - Two Mechanical Key Switches with NeoPixels
SKU: AF-4979 | Brand: Adafruit
The NeoKey FeatherWing adds two mechanical key switch sockets with individually addressable NeoPixel backlighting to any Feather-format microcontroller. Each socket accepts Cherry MX or compatible switches (Kailh, Gat...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
DS2413 1-Wire Two GPIO Controller Breakout
SKU: AF-1551 | Brand: Adafruit
You're too cool for I2C, and SPI has so many wires, 8-bit parallel... how can that be fashionable!? You are a 1-Wire kinda gal, and you want more 1-Wire breakouts in your life to complement all of your great engineeri...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Slow Vibration Sensor Switch (Hard to trigger)
SKU: AF-1767 | Brand: Adafruit
A low-sensitivity, non-directional vibration switch that acts as a simple motion detector. Inside, a stiff spring is coiled around a central metal pin — when the switch is shaken or moved with enough force, the spring...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Assembled Terminal Block Breakout FeatherWing for all Feathers
SKU: AF-2926 | Brand: Adafruit
The Terminal Block Breakout FeatherWing kit is like the Golden Eagle of prototyping FeatherWings (eg. majestic, powerful, good-looking). To start, you get a nice prototyping area underneath your Feather, wi...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
FLORA Sensor Pack
SKU: AF-1458 | Brand: Adafruit
Sense the world around you! The FLORA Sensor Pack includes many types of sensors for your wearable enjoyment. Sense motion, direction, color, light levels, touch, and connections with FLORA sensor breakouts and con...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit Proximity Trinkey - USB APDS9960 Sensor Dev Board
SKU: AF-5022 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Proximity Trinkey is a tiny USB-A development board built around the APDS9960 multi-function sensor and an ATSAMD21 microcontroller. Plug it into any USB port and you instantly have proximity, colour, amb...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit Assembled Pi T-Cobbler Breakout for Raspberry Pi
SKU: AF-1754 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Pi T-Cobbler breaks out all the power, GPIO, I2C and SPI pins from the Raspberry Pi's 26-pin header onto a solderless breadboard in a T-shaped layout. The wider T-shape makes the pin labels easier to read...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
Adafruit Bluefruit LE Shield - Bluetooth LE for Arduino
SKU: AF-2746 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Bluefruit LE Shield adds Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity to your Arduino in a plug-in shield form factor. Solder the included headers, stack it on your Arduino, and start communicating wirelessly with i...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
DS18B20 Digital temperature sensor + extras
SKU: AF-374 | Brand: Adafruit
These 1-wire digital temperature sensors are fairly precise (±0.5°C over much of the range) and can give up to 12 bits of precision from the onboard digital-to-analog converter. They work great with any microcontro...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
DHT11 basic temperature-humidity sensor + extras
SKU: AF-386 | Brand: Adafruit
The DHT11 is a basic, ultra low-cost digital temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure the surrounding air, and spits out a digital signal on the data pin (no an...
Delivered by Tue 13 Oct
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