Breakouts
Breakout boards make it easy to prototype with surface-mount ICs, sensors, displays, and interfaces by bringing tiny pins out to breadboard-friendly headers. Whether you're working with ADCs, OLEDs, TFT displays, or coin cell holders, our range has you covered.
Perfect for makers, students, and engineers across Australia — get your prototyping essentials delivered fast so you can spend more time building and less time waiting.
ProtoBoard - Rectangle 2 Single Sided
SKU: DF-FIT0099 | Brand: DFRobot
A prototyping board is one of the main steps in hardware development, also called a perf board. Breadboard, wiring and punching in chips, resistors and leds is probably the first step. While this is good to confirm a...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Environmental Combo Breakout - CCS811/BME280 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14348 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun CCS811/BME280 Environmental Combo Breakout takes care of all your atmospheric-quality sensing needs with the popular CCS811 and BME280 ICs. This unique breakout provides a variety of environmental data, i...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Light Sensor - BH1750
SKU: DF-SEN0097 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a BH1750 light intensity sensor breakout board with a 16 bit AD converter built-in which can directly output a digital signal, there is no need for complicated calculations. This is a more acurate and easier ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Photon Stackable Header - 12 Pin
SKU: SF-PRT-14322 | Brand: SparkFun
These stackable headers are made to work with the Particle Photon and Photon ProtoShield boards. Each header adds a great deal of connectivity to your next Photon project. Each order includes one 1x12 stackable header...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
USB Serial Light Adapter - Atmega8U2 (Arduino Compatible)
SKU: DF-DFR0164 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a new version of the FTDI breakout board features an Atmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter, the same chip found on the Arduino Uno. The 8U2 firmware uses the standard USB COM drivers, and no ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SWD (2x5 1.27mm) Cable Breakout Board
SKU: AF-2743 | Brand: Adafruit
This adapter board is designed to make it easier to use ARM dev boards that use slimmer 2x5 (0.05"/1.27mm pitch) SWD cables for programming. It's helpful for using products like the JTAGulator, STLink or SEGG...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Thumb Joystick Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-09110 | Brand: SparkFun
This is the breakout board for the thumb joystick. Pins are broken out to a 0.1" header and includes 4 mounting holes in the corners.
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Gas Sensor Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-08891 | Brand: SparkFun
This breakout board provides a convenient PCB adapter for MQ-series gas sensors (MQ-3, MQ-4, MQ-6, MQ-7, and MQ-8). It converts the sensor's oversized, oddly-spaced pins into a standard breakout format that's easy to ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
RFID Reader ID-12LA (125 kHz)
SKU: SF-SEN-11827 | Brand: SparkFun
RFID (radio-frequency identification) is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields, for the purposes of identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. This is the ID-12LA, a very simpl...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Infrared Proximity Sensor - Sharp GP2Y0A21YK
SKU: SF-SEN-00242 | Brand: SparkFun
The Sharp GP2Y0A21YK is an infrared proximity sensor with an analogue voltage output that varies with distance — from 3.1 V at 10 cm to 0.4 V at 80 cm. It uses an IR emitter and position-sensitive detector to measure ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Soil Moisture Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-13322 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Soil Moisture Sensor is a simple breakout for measuring the moisture in soil and similar materials. The soil moisture sensor is pretty straight forward to use. The two large exposed pads function as probe...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
i2c / SPI character LCD backpack
SKU: AF-292 | Brand: Adafruit
LCD backpacks reduce the number of pins needed to connect to an LCD. LCDs are a fun and easy way to have your microcontroller project talk back to you. Character LCDs are common, and easy to get, available in tons ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun RGB LED Breakout - WS2812B
SKU: SF-BOB-13282 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a breakout board for the WS2812B RGB LED. The WS2812B is actually an RGB LED with a WS2811 built right into the LED! All the necessary pins are broken out to 0.1" spaced headers for easy bread-boarding. Severa...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Touch screen breakout board (0.5mm FPC)
SKU: AF-334 | Brand: Adafruit
If you've got a resistive touch screen that you'd like to use, you'll need this breakout! It has a fine pitch (0.5mm) connector soldered onto it and it's broken out into the 4 resistive wires of the panel. A petite...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Thermocouple Breakout - MAX31855K
SKU: SF-SEN-13266 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun MAX31855K Thermocouple Breakout is a simple 14-bit resolution, SPI-compatible, serial interface thermocouple digitizer that makes reading a wide range of temperatures possible. A thermocouple works by ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun FT231X Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-13263 | Brand: SparkFun
Introducing the 3.3V SparkFun FT231X Breakout board, complete with the full UART hardware handshake feature! The pin-out of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned 3.3V Arduino board...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Altitude/Pressure Sensor Breakout - MPL3115A2
SKU: SF-SEN-11084 | Brand: SparkFun
Life has its ups and downs, so why not measure them? The MPL3115A2 is a MEMS pressure sensor that provides Altitude data to within 30cm (with oversampling enabled). The sensor outputs are digitized by a high reso...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun RFID Reader Breakout
SKU: SF-SEN-13030 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun RFID Reader Breakout converts the 2mm pin spacing of ID-series RFID readers to breadboard-friendly 0.1" headers. Compatible with the ID-3LA, ID-12LA, and ID-20LA readers, this board lets you solder the re...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
RF Link Receiver - 4800bps (315MHz)
SKU: SF-WRL-10533 | Brand: SparkFun
A simple 315 MHz wireless receiver module that pairs with 315 MHz transmitters to create a basic one-way data link. It fits easily into a breadboard and works well with microcontrollers like Arduino for straightforwar...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Graphic Equalizer Display Filter - MSGEQ7
SKU: SF-COM-10468 | Brand: SparkFun
The MSGEQ7 is a CMOS graphic equaliser IC that divides the audio spectrum into seven frequency bands: 63 Hz, 160 Hz, 400 Hz, 1 kHz, 2.5 kHz, 6.25 kHz, and 16 kHz. Each band is peak-detected and multiplexed to provide ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
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