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.
Line Follower Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-24048 | Brand: SparkFun
A line follower sensor gives your robot the ability to detect lines or nearby objects. The sensor works by detecting reflected light coming from its own infrared LED. By measuring the amount of reflected infrared ligh...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Adafruit Touch Screen Breakout Board for 4 pin 1.0mm FPC
SKU: AF-3575 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Touch Screen Breakout Board provides a simple way to connect a 4-wire resistive touch panel with a 1.0mm pitch FPC connector to your project. The connector is soldered onto a compact breakout board, with ...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
INA169 Analog DC Current Sensor Breakout - 60V 5A Max
SKU: AF-1164 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board will solve all your current-monitoring problems. Instead of struggling with a multimeter, you can just use the handy INA169 chip on this breakout to both measure both the DC current draw and have a...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
VS1053 Codec + MicroSD Breakout - MP3/WAV/MIDI/OGG Play + Record [v4]
SKU: AF-1381 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board is the ultimate companion for the VLSI VS1053B DSP codec chip. The VS1053 can decode a wide variety of audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, MIDI, FLAC, WAV (PCM and ADPCM). It can al...
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
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
Linear SoftPot (Ribbon Sensor) [100mm]
SKU: AF-178 | Brand: Adafruit
A 100 mm linear soft potentiometer (ribbon sensor) manufactured by Spectra Symbol. This pressure-sensitive ribbon controller features an adhesive backing for easy mounting and provides a variable resistance output bas...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
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
Analog Mini Thumbstick Breakout Board
SKU: AF-3246 | Brand: Adafruit
A neat little breakout board designed for mounting a PSP-style mini thumbstick to your project. The board features panel-mount friendly hole placement and dual-sided headers for mechanical stability when connected to ...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
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
SparkFun Sound Detector
SKU: SF-SEN-12642 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Sound Detector is a small and very easy to use audio sensing board with three different outputs. The Sound Detector not only provides an audio output, but also a binary indication of the presence of so...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Analog UV Light Sensor Breakout - GUVA-S12SD
SKU: AF-1918 | Brand: Adafruit
An analog UV light sensor breakout based on the GUVA-S12SD photodiode, detecting the 240–370nm range covering UVB and most of the UVA spectrum. An on-board op-amp amplifies the tiny photodiode current to a readable vo...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
IR Reflectance Sensor - QRE1113
SKU: SF-COM-09542 | Brand: SparkFun
The QRE1113 is a small IR reflectance sensor. This sensor is often used in line following robots because, if it can sense if a surface is white or black. There are four pins on the QRE1113 - two control the IR em...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Adafruit ADG728 1-to-8 Analog Matrix Switch
SKU: AF-5899 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit ADG728 is a solid-state 1-to-8 analog matrix switch controlled over I2C. Unlike relays, analog switches have no moving parts, won't wear out, and switch in approximately 100 ns. Use it to route up to 8 an...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Intelligent Rain Detection Module
SKU: DF-SEN0545 | Brand: DFRobot
This smart rain sensor offers a fast way to detect rainfall change on glass in real-time free from effects like sunlight, dust, leaves, etc., and feeds back information (no rain, light rain, moderate rain, or heavy ra...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Fermion: ADKey Board -10 Keys (Breakout)
SKU: DF-DFR0792 | Brand: DFRobot
This ADKey board with 10 keys can be used to drive your DFPlayer Pro, DFPlayer Mini, or Voice Recorder Module without programming or using various resistors. It offers 20 delicate button caps with ...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Sensor - MQ-136
SKU: SF-SEN-17052 | Brand: SparkFun
The MQ-136 is a Hydrogen Sulfide detection sensor with a sensing range of 1 - 200ppm. The sensing element is SnO2, which has lower conductivity in clean air. When H₂S gas exists, the sensor’s conductivity gets higher ...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Adafruit TMP235 - Plug-and-Play STEMMA Analog Temperature Sensor - TMP235
SKU: AF-4686 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit TMP235 is a plug-and-play analog temperature sensor with a 3-pin JST PH (STEMMA) connector. Unlike I2C sensors, this one outputs a simple analog voltage proportional to temperature — just connect it to an...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Adafruit PCF8591 Quad 8-bit ADC + 8-bit DAC - STEMMA QT / Qwiic
SKU: AF-4648 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit PCF8591 Quad 8-bit ADC + 8-bit DAC combines four analogue input channels and one analogue output channel in a single I2C breakout. Measure voltages from potentiometers, sensors, or other analogue sources ...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Adafruit DragonTail for micro:bit - Fully Assembled
SKU: AF-3695 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit DragonTail for micro:bit breaks out all of the micro:bit's edge connector pads to standard 0.1" headers for easy breadboard use. Simply slot your micro:bit into the card-edge connector and every pin — inc...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
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